Sam Walter Foss Quotes

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

Sam Walter Foss
I say the very things that make the greatest Stir
An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

Sam Walter Foss
We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne.

Sam Walter Foss
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
Strew gladness on the paths of men—
You will not pass this way again.

Sam Walter Foss
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
He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;
Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;
Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;
Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.

Sam Walter Foss
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
The plain man is the basic clod From which we grow the demigod; And in the average man is curled The hero stuff that rules the world.

Sam Walter Foss
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