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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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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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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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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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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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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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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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