Robert Frost Quotes



     “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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    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
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     “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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     “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
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    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
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    “The best way out is always through.”
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    “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
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    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
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     “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
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     “Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
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     “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
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    “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
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     “There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
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    “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
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    “How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
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    “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
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    “You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”
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    “Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
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     “I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”
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    “The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
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     “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
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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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     “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
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    “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
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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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    “Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
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    “Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
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     “Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.”
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    “I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worseI found God wasn't there.”
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    “I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.”
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    “Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.”
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    “A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”
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    “Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.”
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     “By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
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    “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”
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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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     “Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.”
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    “Anything more than the truth would be too much.”
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     “Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”
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