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Inspirational Quotes by Robert Frost

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Robert Frost paints a picture of birches bending as if a boy were swinging on them, and he wonders about the mystery of birth and our place on earth. He notes that the tone of a voice can carry more meaning than words themselves. He also reminds us of promises and long journeys before rest.

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I never take my own side in a quarrel.

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All the fun is in how you say a thing.

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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

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Nothing gold can stay.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat

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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

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Don't be agnostic - be something.

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Anything more than the truth would be too much.

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Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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All great things are done for their own sake.

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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

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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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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only…

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference….

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We ran as if to meet the moon.

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If one by one we counted people out

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The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

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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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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

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I play better tennis because the court is there.

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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

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Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.

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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

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