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Stephen Vincent Benet

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite – that was Dan’l Webster in his prime.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

– Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

You can’t depend on the kind of folks people think they are – you’ve got to go by what they do. And I wouldn’t give much for a man that some folks hadn’t thought was a fool, in his time.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead – or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet Wisdom

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

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet 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

Dreams Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreaming men are haunted men.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

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