"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
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"Good fences make good neighbors."
"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
"Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart."
"I'm not a teacher, but an awakener."
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep..."
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
"The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil."
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!"
"The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt."
"What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography."
"How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?"
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
"You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles."
"All great things are done for their own sake."
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."