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Life Quotes by Robert Frost

64 Life quotes by Robert Frost

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A line that asks how many things must happen before something occurs to you hints at life's waiting game. Other verses point out that we spend more time thinking about the past or future than the present, and they remind us that family life works best when we notice subtle hints. The poet ends with the simple truth that life keeps moving forward.

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Life is tons of discipline.

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Nothing gold can stay.

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We ran as if to meet the moon.

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In three words I can sum up everything Iv'e learned about life: It goes on

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In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on.

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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

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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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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in…

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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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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles…

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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…

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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to…

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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down…

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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.…

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“He never got up high enough to see. That's why I don't advise your trying this side. He tried this side. I've…

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“But yield who will their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes…

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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a…

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“But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together…

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As one who over taken by the end Gives up his errand, and lets death descend Upon him where he is, with…

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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in…

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Tis of the essence of life here, Though we choose greatly, still to lack The lasting memory at all clear, That life…

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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down…

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“The Trial By Existence Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even…

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“For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and not a…

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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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In three words I can sum up what I've learned about life: It goes on.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

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In three words I can sum up one thing i've learned about life: IT GOES ON!

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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

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

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IF THREE WORDS I CAN SUM UP,EVERYTHING I'VE LEARNED...IS LIFE GOES ON

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

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