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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost
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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
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Robert Lee Frost
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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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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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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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 best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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