This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Men are freed of their covenants two ways; by performing, or by being forgiven. For performance is the natural end of obligation, and forgiveness the restitution of liberty, as being a retransferring of that right in which the obligation consisted.
Lust | Passion | Perseverance | Vehemence |
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them, that assault him by force, to take away his life. Because a man cannot tell, when he seeth men proceed against him by violence whether they intend his death or not.
Lust | Perseverance | Vehemence |
To inform the minds of the people, and to follow their will, is the chief duty of those placed at their head.
Perseverance | Obstacle |
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
Perseverance | Will |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.
Distinguish | Good | Perseverance | Present | Taste |
Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
Courage | Perseverance |
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Little | Perseverance |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Genius | Perseverance |