This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! My hat and wig will soon be here, they are upon the road.
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François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
It is genius that brings into being, and it is taste that preserves. Without taste genius is nought but sublime folly.
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Much of the glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its mystery. - To understand everything we must be as God.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
If we look into the history of our own nation, we shall find that the beard flourished in the Saxon heptarchy, but was very much discouraged under the Norman line. It shot out, however, from time to time, in several reigns under different shapes. The last effort it made seems to have been in Queen MaryÂ’s days, as the curious reader may find, if he pleases to peruse the figures of Cardinal Pole and Bishop Gardiner; though, at the same time, I think it may be questioned, if zeal against popery has not induced our Protestant painters to extend the beards of these two persecutors beyond their natural dimensions, in order to make them appear the more terrible.
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