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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...
We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will,...
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.Source: George Eliot's Life...
An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.Source:...
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. More about this quote
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.Source:...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. More about this quote
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48-- Jane...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more...
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. More about this quote
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now...
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
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