Dreaming men are haunted men.
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet in Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
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Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.
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Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory. Grant us that courage and foreseeing to begin this task today that our children and our children's children may be proud of the name of man.
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Dedication
To W. R. B.
And so, to you, who always were
Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot
To me, I give these weedy rhymes
In memory of earlier times.
Now all those careless days are not.
Of all my heroes, you endure.
Words are such silly things! too rough,
Too smooth, they boil up or congeal,
And neither of us likes emotion --
But I can't measure my devotion!
And you know how I really feel --
And we're together. There, enough . . .
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