Robert Frost Quotes
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.
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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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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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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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What we live by we die by.
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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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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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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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He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed....
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There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman.