Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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We love things we love what they are.
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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Ants are a curious race.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state....
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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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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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.