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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

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
Truly
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Listen
Views
Without
Temper
Self
Educated
Confidence
Losing

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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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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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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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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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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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