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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
Knowledge
Human
Insufficient
Humans
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Limited
Evidence
Courage
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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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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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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