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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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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
House
Telescope
Telescopes
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Insurance
Burned
Spent
Vision
Fire

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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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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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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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