"The only asylum Was the poorhouse, and thosewho……" — Robert Frost
"The only asylum Was the poorhouse, and thosewho could afford, Rather than send their folks to such a place, Kept them at home; and it does seem more human. But it's not so: the place is theasylum. There they have every means proper to do with, And you aren't darkening other people's lives...."
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Robert Frost
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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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