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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

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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Human
Insufficient
Humans
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Limited

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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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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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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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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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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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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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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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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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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Nature's first green is gold.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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