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Robert Frost: If society fits...

Robert Frost: If society fits...

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Source: In Webster's...

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Robert Frost: Talking is a...

Robert Frost: Talking is a...

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure...

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Robert Frost: This as it...

Robert Frost: This as it...

This as it will be seen is other far
Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song.
We love the things we love for...

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Robert Frost: The people I...

Robert Frost: The people I...

The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

Source: In Webster's...

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Robert Frost: Two such as...

Robert Frost: Two such as...

Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are...

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William Wordsworth: Twas pastime to...

William Wordsworth: Twas pastime to...

Twas pastime to be bound
Within the sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some souls (for such there needs...

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William Wordsworth: I'd rather be<br>A...

William Wordsworth: I'd rather be
A...

I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimses...

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William Wordsworth: Enough, if something...

William Wordsworth: Enough, if something...

Enough, if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour;
And if, as toward...

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William Wordsworth: O blithe new-comer!...

William Wordsworth: O blithe new-comer!...

O blithe new-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a...

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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Luck is not chance --
It's toil --
Fortune's expensive smile Is earned.


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Rupert Brooke: Just now the...

Rupert Brooke: Just now the...

Just now the lilac is in bloom
All before my little room.


Source: The Old...

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Ogden Nash: How easy for...

Ogden Nash: How easy for...

How easy for those who do not bulge
To not overindulge!


Source: A Necessary...

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Ogden Nash: Beneath this slab<br>John...

Ogden Nash: Beneath this slab
John...

Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed.
He watched the ads,
And not the road.


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Ogden Nash: Remorse is a...

Ogden Nash: Remorse is a...

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Source: A Clean Conscience Never...

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Ogden Nash: The song of...

Ogden Nash: The song of...

The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty...

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Ogden Nash: Tell me, O...

Ogden Nash: Tell me, O...

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou,...

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Ogden Nash: Your hair may...

Ogden Nash: Your hair may...

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's
untidy,
You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday,
No...

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Alexander Pope: An honest man's...

Alexander Pope: An honest man's...

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Source: An Essay on Man, 1734
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