"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

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"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season."

Frost, Robert on Acceptance
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on Difficulties
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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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"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."

Frost, Robert on Draft
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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

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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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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

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"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

Frost, Robert on Family
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"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

Frost, Robert on Fear
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

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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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"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."

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"The only way around is through."

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"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."

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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

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"There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see."

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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

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

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"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Frost, Robert on Hell
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"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."

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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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"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

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"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

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"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."

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"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."

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"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

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"A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

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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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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on Life and Living
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."

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"One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house."

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"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

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"Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar."

Frost, Robert on Marriage
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