Robert Frost Quotes
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.