Richard Hovey Quotes

• 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 Hovey

  Fate, Destiny, Sea

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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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 Hovey

  Wall, Sky, Sick

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• Spring in the world! And all things are made new!

  Richard Hovey

  Spring, World, April

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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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 Hovey

  Clouds, Glasses, Sky

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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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 Hovey

  Thank You, Song, Weather

  "A Stein Song" l. 5 (1896)

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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.

  Richard Hovey

  Men, Gold, Cotton

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• The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

  Richard Hovey

  Spring, Night, Men

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

  Richard Hovey

  Failure, Fighting, Glory

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• How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!

  Richard Hovey

  Strong, Lord, Lord God

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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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 Hovey

  Fighting, Battle, Beast

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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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 Hovey

  War, Maine, Ships

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• East, to the dawn, or west or south or north!
  Loose rein upon the neck of - and forth!

  Richard Hovey

  Fate, Necks, Dawn

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.

  Richard Hovey

  Giving, Payment, Asks

  Richard Hovey (1895). “The Marriage of Guenevere: A Tragedy”

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• The great white cold walks abroad!

  Richard Hovey

  White, Cold, Walks

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.

  Richard Hovey

  Weather, Fairs

  Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”

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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 Hovey

  Travel, Sunset, Soul

  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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• There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.

  Richard Hovey

  Lost Love, Like Love, Joy

  Richard Hovey (1907). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”

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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 Hovey

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Cheer

  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.

  Richard Hovey

  God, Art, Men

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