Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
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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.
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Life is the game that must be played.
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The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led.
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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.
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I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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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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Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
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The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.
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Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
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The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.
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Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
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I mean you last as long as lies.
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Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.