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Robert Frost Inspirational Quotes (285)

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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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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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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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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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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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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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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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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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