Richard Hovey quotes
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“I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College
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“Spring in the world! And all things are made new!”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College
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“I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
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“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”
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“The great white cold walks abroad!”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
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“How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
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“EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand.”
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“Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1895). “The Marriage of Guenevere: A Tragedy”
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“East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth!”
-- Richard HoveySource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
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“I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Avi, Karen Cushman, Henry Wysham Lanier, Peg C. Schwabel, Cynthia Corzo (2000). “The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle and related readings”
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“Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?”
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“For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.”
-- Richard HoveySource : "A Stein Song" l. 5 (1896)
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“I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass; I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling Lone and high, And the slow clouds go by. I will get me away to the waters that glass The clouds as they pass. I will get me away to the woods.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College
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“Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
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“And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.”
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“Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
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“There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1907). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”
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“Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!”
-- Richard HoveySource : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
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