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Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes: I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
         

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.


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Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?



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Life is the game that must be played.



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Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.



The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.



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No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel



I shall have more to say when I am dead.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.



For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.



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And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.



Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.



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Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.





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She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.



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I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.



No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same must be true of the Second.

No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same must be true of the Second.



by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!



You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.



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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.




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