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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
Poem
Begins
Delight
Figure
Wisdom
Desire
Makes
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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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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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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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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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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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