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FRANK's Components of Creativity
As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame,I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. More about this person...
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Ask you what provocation I have had?The strong antipathy of good to bad. More about this person...
And hence one master-passion in the breast,Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. More about this person...
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! More about this person...
All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame.Source: The Dunciad, Bk iii....
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the...
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;Still by himself abused, or disabused;Created half to rise, and...
Awake my St John! Leave all meaner thingsTo low ambition, and the pride of kings.Let us, since life can little...
But let a lord once own the happy lines,How the wit brightens! how the style refines! More about this person...
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.Source: In More about this person...
Behold the child, by nature's kindly lawPleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw:Some livelier plaything...
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.Source: The Rape of the Lock, V....
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. More about this person...
Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain,The creature's at his dirty work again. More about this person...
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence.Source: Eloisa to Abelard, 192--...
But thousands die without or this or that,Die, and endow a college, or a cat:To some, indeed, Heaven grants...
Chaste to her Husband, frank to all beside,A teeming Mistress, but a barren Bride. More about this person...
Cibber! write all thy Verses upon Glasses,The only way to save 'em from our Arses. More about this person...
Did some more sober critic come abroad?If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. More about this person...
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breathShall feel your ruling passion strong in...
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