Robert Frost Quotes
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich. Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.