Frank Crane quotes

Frank Crane was an American Presbyterian minister, speaker, and widely read newspaper columnist. His inspirational essays touched on topics like morality, happiness, and human character. He became renowned for his uplifting messages and practical wisdom. Here are 43 of his quotes:

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. (Frank Crane)
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. View quote
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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends. View quote
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Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black - the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem. View quote
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The human heart is a cup of love, where some find life and zest, and some drunkenness and death. View quote
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THERE is a passage of Holy Writ that exhorts us that if there be any good things, such as love, virtue, truth, and so on, we ought to think on these things. View quote
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The human heart is a meadow full of fireflies, a summer western sky of shimmering distant lightnings, a shore set round with flashing lighthouses, far-away voices calling that we cannot understand. View quote
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How to value my own self-esteem more than the praise of others. View quote
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The fact that seems to underlie this exhortation is that we become what we think about. View quote
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How to find pleasure in common things. View quote
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How to get joy out of nature. (Frank Crane)
The human heart is a deep still pool; in it are fishes of gold and silver, darting playfully, and slow-heaving slimy monsters, and tarnished treasure hoards, the infinite animalcular life; but when you look down at it you see but your own reflected face. View quote
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The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all. View quote
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How to be a good fellow without being a fool. View quote
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The human heart is the throne of God, the council-chamber of the devil, the dwelling of angels, the vile heath of witches' Sabbaths, the nursery of sweet children, the blood-spattered scene of nameless tragedies. View quote
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How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact. View quote
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Listen! You will hear mothers' lullabies, madmen's shrieks, love-croonings, cries of agonized terror, hymns of Christ, the roaring of lynch mobs, the kisses of lovers, the curses of pirates. View quote
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The human heart is a roaring forge where night and day the smiths are busy fashioning swords and silver cups, mitres and engine-wheels, the tools of *labor, and the gauds of precedence. View quote
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How to play fair. View quote
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How to control my temper. View quote
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The human heart to youth is a fairy-land of adventure, to old age it is a sitting room where one knows his way in the dark. (Frank Crane)
The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell. View quote
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How to get stimulation out of simple food and water drink, and not alcohol. View quote
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How to use my imagination so as to strengthen me instead of making me weak. View quote
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The human heart is a lonely lane in the evening, and two lovers are walking down it, whispering and lingering. View quote
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Frank Crane

Occupation: American Clergyman
Born: 1861
Died: 1928
Quotes count: 43
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