Frost, Robert
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Frost, Robert
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Frost, Robert
Hell
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
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Heaven
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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Choice
Something there is that doesn t love a wall, and wants it down.
Frost, Robert
Communication
Education is hanging around until you ve caught on.
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Education
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Education
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Change
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
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Bosses and Employees
I m not confused, I m just well mixed.
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Confusion
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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Books - Reading
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Communication
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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Draft
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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Difficulties
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Hell
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman s birthday but never remembers her age.
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Diplomacy
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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Family
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Fools and Foolishness
There is the fear that we shan t prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won t understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Fear
And were an epitaph to be my story I d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover s quarrel with the world.
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Epitaphs
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Friends and Friendship
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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Grammar
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Fights and Fighting
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Failure
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Happiness
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
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God
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Frost, Robert
Individuality
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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Heart
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
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Home
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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Grave
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that s the worst place to drive.
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Lies and Lying
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Liberals
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Life and Death
In three words I can sum up everything I ve learned about life. It goes on.
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Life and Living
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Love
Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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Marriage
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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Losers and Losing
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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Law and Lawyers
One aged man -- one man -- can t fill a house.
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Loneliness
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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Income
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Law and Lawyers
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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Ideas
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
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Nonsense
The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
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Land
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Poetry and Poets
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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Poetry and Poets
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Optimism
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Poetry and Poets
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Poetry and Poets
Don t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Reason
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
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Poetry and Poets
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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Power
Good fences make good neighbors.
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Neighbors
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Poetry and Poets
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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Nationalities and Nationalism
You don t have to deserve your mother s love. You have to deserve your father s. He s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother s always a Democrat.
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Parents and Parenting
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Promises
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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Radicals
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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Skepticism
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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Secrets
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Truth
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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School
To be social is to be forgiving.
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Society
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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Thoughts and Thinking
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Teachers and Teaching
Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Frost, Robert
Risk
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
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Universe
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Time and Time Management
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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Stardom
Always fall in with what you re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever s going. Not against: with.
Frost, Robert
Acceptance
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
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Acceptance
What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Birth
My sorrow, when she s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
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Autumn
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Argument
The only way around is through.
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Achievement
If you don t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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America
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Vanity
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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Will and Will Power
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
Frost, Robert
Work
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Worry
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
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Work