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But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.


Robert Pollok

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
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ROBERT POLLOK What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
ROBERT POLLOK Virtue alone is happiness below.
ROBERT POLLOK 'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
ROBERT POLLOK Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ROBERT POLLOK Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.
ROBERT POLLOK Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
ROBERT POLLOK Get wealth and power, if possible by grace, If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
ROBERT POLLOK Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.
ROBERT POLLOK Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said; One half will never be beli...
ROBERT POLLOK Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
ROBERT POLLOK Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
ROBERT POLLOK Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ROBERT POLLOK And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
ROBERT POLLOK All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ROBERT POLLOK A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
ROBERT POLLOK A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
ROBERT POLLOK 'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
ROBERT POLLOK Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.
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ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
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ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
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ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
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ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
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ROBERT BYRD One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'...
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ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
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ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
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