Robert Frost Quotes
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....
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It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....
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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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What we live by we die by.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
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Ants are a curious race.