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The surest thing there is is we are riders.... The surest thing there is is we are riders....

Robert Frost

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The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enfor... - MORE The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enforcing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments], and, in case of my refusal, will put the repeal [as "riders"] on the appropriation bills. They will ... block the wheels of government, if I do not yield my conviction in favor of the election laws. It will be a severe, perhaps a long contest. I do not fear it.... The people will not allow this revolutionary course to triumph.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

presidential powers | politics

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To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on t... - MORE To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Archibald MacLeish

earth

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Good swimmers drown and good riders get thrown. Good swimmers drown and good riders get thrown.

unknown author

overconfidence | providence | caution

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His thoughts, delivered to me
From the white coverlet and pillow,... - MORE His thoughts, delivered to me
From the white coverlet and pillow,
I see now, were inheritances--
Delicate riders of the storm.

Hart Crane

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Custer's dead and around the bloody guidon of the immortal Seventh Cavalry lie 212 officers of the main. Sioux and Cheyenne are on... - MORE Custer's dead and around the bloody guidon of the immortal Seventh Cavalry lie 212 officers of the main. Sioux and Cheyenne are on the war path. By military telegraph news of the Custer massacre is flashed across the long, long miles to the southwest. By stagecoach to the hundred settlements and the thousand farms standing under threat of Indian uprising. Pony Express riders know that one more such defeat as Custer's and it would be 100 years before another wagon train dared to cross the plain. And from the Canadian border to the Rio Bravo 10,000 Indians--Comanche, Arapaho, Sioux, and Apache under Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse, Gaul, and Crow King--are uniting in a common war against the United States cavalry.

Frank S. Nugent

history | Old West, the | Native Americans

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To come down to my own experience, my companion and I ... take pleasure in fancying ourselves as knights of a new, or rather an ol... - MORE To come down to my own experience, my companion and I ... take pleasure in fancying ourselves as knights of a new, or rather an old, order,--not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust. The chivalric and heroic spirit which once belonged to the Rider seems now to reside in, or perchance to have subsided into, the Walker,--not the Knight, but Walker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of Church and State and People.

Henry David Thoreau

sauntering | chivalry | walking

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There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,... - MORE There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses,
The crowd that closes in behind....

William Butler Yeats

horse racing | excitement

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Violence upon the roads: violence of horses;
Some few have handsome riders, are garlanded... - MORE Violence upon the roads: violence of horses;
Some few have handsome riders, are garlanded
On delicate sensitive ear or tossing mane,
But wearied running round and round in their courses
All break and vanish, and evil gathers head:
Herodias' daughters have returned again.

William Butler Yeats

violence | evil | Sidhe

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"I am enchanted, believe me,
To die, thus,
In this mediaeval fashion,
According to the best legends; - MORE "I am enchanted, believe me,
To die, thus,
In this mediaeval fashion,
According to the best legends;

Stephen Crane

death

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