In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Quotes by Robert Frost
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Freedom lies in being bold.
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.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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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