Robert Frost Quotes
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I always entertain great hopes.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.
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So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.