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FRANK's Components of Creativity
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man...
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. More about this quote...
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain...
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.Source: -- Henry David...
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which...
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and...
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. More about this quote...
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense...
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive...
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is...
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes? More about this quote...
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.Source: Walden,...
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it...
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in...
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A...
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that...
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to...
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. More about this quote...
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet...
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not...
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