Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
ROBERT FROSTThere are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
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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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The test is always how we treat the poor.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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In three words I can sum up everything 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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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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What we live by we die by.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.
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All great things are done for their own sake.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
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You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
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You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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