"This I saw when waking late, Going by……" — Robert Frost
"This I saw when waking late, Going by at a railroad rate, Looking through wreaths of engine smoke Far into the lives of other folk."
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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 Engine Quotes
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is…
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
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The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best…
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing.…
— Larry Page
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Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
— John Ruskin
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