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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...
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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of...
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. More about this quote
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.Source: In W.O.W....
It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...
It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country. More about this quote
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious...
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year,...
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a...
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or...
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put...
Love, like chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its...
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an...
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. More about this quote
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and...
[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...
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