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" Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. "

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" Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. "

" Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. "

" No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. "

" The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. "

" Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. "

" Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. "

" I go to school the youth to learn the future. "

" Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. "

" The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. "

" I had a lovers quarrel with the world. "

" Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. "

" Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. "

" The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "

" Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. "

" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "

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Self-Confidence

" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

" I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed. "

" I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. "

" I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. "

" Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. "

" My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. "

" College is a refuge from hasty judgment. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" Freedom lies in being bold. "

" Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. "

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "