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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. – Edgar Lee Masters
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. – John Owen
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. – Robert Southey
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. – W. Somerset Maugham
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. – Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives. – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. – Gordon R. Dickson
The Doctor of the Future will give no medicine but will interest [teach] his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. – Gertrude Stein
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady. – Richard Milhous Nixon
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. – Abraham Lincoln
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. – Charles Darwin
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. – Anna Jameson

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