Howard Frank Mosher quotes
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“Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.”
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“Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.”
-- Howard Frank MosherSource : Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “Waiting for Teddy Williams”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.”
-- Howard Frank MosherSource : Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.”
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“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”
-- Howard Frank Mosher
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“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.”
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“Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.”
Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.226
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“If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.”
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“Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.”
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