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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
Worry
Dies
Death
Work
Men

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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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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.
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