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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. More about this quote
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of...
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.Source: In The Ultimate...
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. More about this quote
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...
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...
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate...
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.Source:...
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...
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...
The distance that the dead have goneDoes not at first appear --Their coming back seems possibleFor many an...
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now...
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