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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten...
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.Source: George Eliot's Life...
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.Source: In The Ultimate...
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
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...
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...
There are many victories worse than a defeat.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Source: Emma,...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.Source: A Bolter and the...
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. More about this quote
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