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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

Robert Frost

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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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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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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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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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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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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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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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