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I never take my own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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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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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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