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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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Eight
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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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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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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