Top 22 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

About Stephen Vincent Benet

These are some quotes by American author Stephen Vincent Benet Poet, who lived between July 22, 1898 and March 13, 1943.

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

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

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

Stephen Vincent Benet

It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.

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.

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

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

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

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