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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

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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
Ails
Moderns
Sick
Space

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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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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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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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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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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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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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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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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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A turning point in modern history.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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