"He burned his house down for the fire……" — Robert Frost
"He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope."
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385 Quotes by Robert Frost
Robert Frost has 385 quotes on this site.
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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 Burned Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
— Jo Brand
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I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
— Summer Altice
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated…
— Carl Sagan
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it…
— John Bunyan
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One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes…
— Thomas Reed
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Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be…
— Mary Alice
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But…
— Lydia M. Child
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping…
— Edward Conlon
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