Sam Walter Foss Quotes

• Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Friendship, Men, House

  Sam Walter Foss, “The House By The Side Of The Road”

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• Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer -- Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Sweet, Prayer, Night

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fishers of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Nature

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fisher of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.
  There are thoughts that moan from the soul of the pine
  And thoughts in a flower-bell curled;
  And the thoughts that are blown with the scent of the fern
  Are as new and as old as the world.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Flower

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• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Brain, Mountain

  Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

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• Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Sam Walter Foss, “The House By The Side Of The Road”

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Way, Path

  Sam Walter Foss (1907). “Songs of the Average Man”

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• One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Home, Men, Boston

  Sam Walter Foss, “The Calf-Path”

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Keys, Buckets, Afar

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• W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Country, Men, Soul

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Uplifting, Stars, Opportunity

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• Just drop your bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Buckets, Where You Are

  "Opportunity", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 570-72,

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• The woods were made for the hunter of dreams...

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Woods, Hunters

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Bloodless Sportsman"), 1922.

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• A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Boston, Years

  Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

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• There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Land, Purple, Grapes

  "The Land of Git-Thare", reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, World, Woe

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• I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

  Sam Walter Foss

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