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
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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
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The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move
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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.
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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.
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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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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
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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.