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title: "2 Afar Quotes By Sam Walter Foss"
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> [Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/seek-not-for-fresher-founts-afar-just-drop-your-bucket-where-you-are/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

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> [Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/seek-not-for-fresher-founts-afar-just-drop-you-bucket-where-you-are/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

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## More by Sam Walter Foss

> [The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/the-woods-were-made-for-the-hunters-of-dreams-the-brooks-for-the/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [Just drop your bucket where you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/just-drop-your-bucket-where-you-are/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/w-en-you-see-a-man-in-woe-walk-right-up-and-say-hullo-say-hullo-and/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/i-say-the-very-things-that-make-the-greatest-stiran-the-most/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [The woods were made for the hunter of dreams...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/the-woods-were-made-for-the-hunter-of-dreams/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/a-hundred-thousand-men-were-led-by-one-calf-near-three-centuries-dead/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/strew-gladness-on-the-paths-of-men-you-will-not-pass-this-way-again/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/there-are-purple-grapes-in-the-land-of-git-thare/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/seek-not-for-fresher-founts-afar-just-drop-your-bucket-where-you-are/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/let-me-live-in-my-house-by-the-side-of-the-road-where-the-race-of-men/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/one-day-through-the-primeval-wood-a-calf-walked-home-as-good-calves/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [“There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellowless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/there-are-hermit-souls-that-live-withdrawn-in-the-place-of-their-self/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/for-men-are-prone-to-go-it-blind-along-the-calf-paths-of-the-mind-to/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/w-en-you-see-a-man-in-woe-walk-right-up-and-say-hullo-say-hullo-and-2/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

> [There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-walter-foss/there-are-hermit-souls-that-live-withdrawn-in-the-place-of-their-self-2/)

[Sam Walter Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-walter-foss/)

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