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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.Source: Quoted in:...
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.Source: In James Boswell, Life of...
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.Source: In Webster's...
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a library. More about this quote...
Life protracted is protracted woe.Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes.-- Samuel...
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our...
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.Source: In...
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Source: In Webster's...
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.Source:...
Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England.Source: Life of Johnson,...
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a...
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the...
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.Source:...
We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always...
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at...
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.Source: Quoted...
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labour,...
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most...
Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.Source: --...
Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
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