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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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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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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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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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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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