Author: Stephen Vincent Benet

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Dreaming men are haunted men.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.

Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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