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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

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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Wisdom
Unmerciful
Mercy
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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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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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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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... 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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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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