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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

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Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

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A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

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There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

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There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: May 23rd, 1799

Died: May 3rd, 1845

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