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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth."
"Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!"
"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week."
"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
"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."
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure."
"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
"The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose."
"The artist in me cries out for design."
"The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued."
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
"All the fun is in how you say a thing."
"There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow."
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."