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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.Source: In Words of Women...
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...
Let us go in; the fog is rising.Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
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...
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
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think...
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to...
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is...
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Source: -- Mary...
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...
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...
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. More about this quote
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