Henry Van Dyke Quotes
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I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Who can explain the secret pathos of nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost paradise. It is the sense that 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)
Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
I shall grow old, but never lose life’s zest, because the road’s last turn will be the best (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay... For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)