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Quotes by Poet
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
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"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
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"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."
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"He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done."
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"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
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"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
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"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
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"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."
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"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood."
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"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."
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"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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"Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now."
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"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
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"Men are what their mothers made them."
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
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"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
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"Without dreams 'life'remains 'life'..always: neither better nor worse."
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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."
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"See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience."
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