Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROSTUnless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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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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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.
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I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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There 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.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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What we live by we die by.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
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All thought is a feat of association; having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.
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