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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Stephen Vincent Benet
Age: 44 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 22
Died: 1943
Died: March 13
Journalist
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Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.
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Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.
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If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.
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Books are not men and yet they are alive.
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Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
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Something begins, begins Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
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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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One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.
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Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.
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I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
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I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.
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The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
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Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.
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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 speech is strange, you have denied America with that word.
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Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
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