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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. (Robert Frost)
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. View quote
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air. View quote
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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. View quote
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The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. View quote
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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at. View quote
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. View quote
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Freedom lies in being bold. View quote
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice. View quote
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. View quote
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. (Robert Frost)
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. View quote
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What we live by we die by. View quote
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. View quote
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To be social is to be forgiving. View quote
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The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. View quote
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. View quote
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It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. View quote
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. (Robert Frost)
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 the end Of a love or a season. View quote
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather. View quote
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took. View quote
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