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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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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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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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