"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 take-and took."
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"The sidelong glance is what you depend on."
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"He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."
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"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."
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"The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them."
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"The snake stood up for evil in the Garden."
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"The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past."
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"An idea is a feat of association."
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"Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press."
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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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"The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence."
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"Freedom is when you are easy in the harness."
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"For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true"
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"Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury."
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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."
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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."
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"GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?"
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"Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave."
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