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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. More about this quote
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of...
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is...
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Source: -- Mary...
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.Source:...
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.Source: 'Felix...
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. More about this quote
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. More about this quote
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...
The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think...
An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.Source:...
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
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