Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
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Dreaming men are haunted men.
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Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his…
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
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The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
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Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are…
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I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more…
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Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
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Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and…
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We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
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You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.
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Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a…
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As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
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Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the…
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Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war,…
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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
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