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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

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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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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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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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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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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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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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