"Have I not walked without an upward look……" — Robert Frost
"Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took."
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385 Quotes by Robert Frost
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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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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and…
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to…
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who…
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of…
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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…
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's…
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone.…
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More Carefulness Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
— Wernher von Braun
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does…
— Lydia M. Child
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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
— Confucius
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If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there…
— Rumi
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If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able…
— Thomas Merton
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the…
— Saadi
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Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
— Emma Goldman
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them…
— William James
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Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and…
— John Ruskin
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink…
— Bible
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