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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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  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

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  Nature, Hiking, Hints

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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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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  Food, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

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  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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  Art, Believe, Writing

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

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  Mean, Voice, Tone

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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  Beauty, Insecurity, Enmity

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.350, Harvard University Press

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• The test is always how we treat the poor.

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  Tests, Poor, Treats

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

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  Love, Life, Strength

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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  Safe, World, Metaphor

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

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  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

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  Uncomfortable Feeling, Tolerance, Feelings

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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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  Rights, Political, Icy

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• You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

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  Inspirational, Hate, Differences

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

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  Kindness, Heart, Compassion

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 578, 1895.

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• O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

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  Morning, Autumn, Land

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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  Expression, Effort, Emotion

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

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  Law, Done, Violence

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• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

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  Lost, Interpretation, Poetry Is

  Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)

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• I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

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  Education, Teacher

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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