Frank Crane
Frank Crane
Frank Hall Cranewas an American stage and film actor and director. He appeared in 75 films between 1909 and 1939. He also directed 48 films between 1914 and 1927. His first screen writing included The Stolen Voice in 1915...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
sort spend time witty
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
corner merely
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
habit safer
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
develops dread gives people responsibility
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
deceived torment trust
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough
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It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
deeds quality soul
What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day; and by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul
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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.