This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at III, ii)
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
Merit |
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter.
Merit | Punishment |
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
Doubtless Catherine marked the difference between her friends, as one came in and the other went out. The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect.
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Inevitable | Inferiority | Merit | Position | Question | Right | Woman |