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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Source: -- Mary...
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.Source:...
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. More about this quote
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.Source: Higham's 'Kate',...
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...
The grass is always greener over the septic tank.Source: From Charades, an...
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for othersSource:...
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...
When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
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