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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.Source: George Eliot's Life...
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...
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...
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 institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding...
War has . . . become a luxury which only the small nations can afford.Source: In...
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. More about this quote
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.Source: In Samples...
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.Source: Face Toward the...
I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.Source: On her bout with...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.Source: -- Rita Mae...
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied,...
[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very...
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,...
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. More about this quote
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