Henry Van Dyke Quotes
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The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts! (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, ‘tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life’s heart-warming wine (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav’n securely. (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws. (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)