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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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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 only way out is to go through
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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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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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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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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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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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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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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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