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Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon,
Catching the lilt of every easy tune;
But when the day departs he sings of love,
His own wild song beneath the listening moon. — Henry Van Dyke

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For those who love ... time is eternity ... — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

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Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right! — Henry Van Dyke

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There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. — Henry Van Dyke

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But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed. — Henry Van Dyke

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One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members. — Henry Van Dyke

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Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Bob Proctor

Thoughts Are Things I hold it true that thoughts are things; They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings: And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results, or ill. That which we call our secret thought Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot, Leaving its blessings or its woes Like tracks behind it as it goes. We build our future, thought by thought, For good or ill, yet know it not. Yet so the universe was wrought. Thought is another name for fate; Choose then thy destiny and wait, For love brings love and hate brings hate. Henry Van Dyke — Bob Proctor

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, 'Tis luck enough to live. — Henry Van Dyke

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Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

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The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast. — Henry Van Dyke

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

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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

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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Man said, I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings! — Henry Van Dyke

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Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land. — Henry Van Dyke

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The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

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Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest. — Henry Van Dyke

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I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Like water spilt upon the ground
alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it. — Henry Van Dyke

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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,- The after-echo of departed years,- And touches all the soul to tears. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted? — Henry Van Dyke

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In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes. — Henry Van Dyke

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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. — Henry Van Dyke

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We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors. — Henry Van Dyke

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In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

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

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give. — Henry Van Dyke

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A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose! — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live. — Henry Van Dyke

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Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven. — Henry Van Dyke

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What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave. — Henry Van Dyke

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Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way." — Henry Van Dyke

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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. — Henry Van Dyke

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Let me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul,
Not hastening to, nor turning from the goal;
Nor mourning things that disappear
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear
From what the future veils; but with a whole
And happy heart, that pays its toll
To youth and age, and travels on with cheer.
So let the way wind up the hill or down,
Through rough or smooth, the journey will be joy,
Still seeking what I sought when but a boy
New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest,
Because the road's last turn will be the best. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Peace without Justice is a low estate,- A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,- We'll pay the price of war to make it real. — Henry Van Dyke

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A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,- Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home. — Henry Van Dyke

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I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep. — Henry Van Dyke

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The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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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

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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

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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Oh It's home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that's Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea. — Henry Van Dyke

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If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. — Henry Van Dyke

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Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke

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No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. — Henry Van Dyke

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The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it. — Henry Van Dyke

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Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. — Henry Van Dyke

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Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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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

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free ... — Henry Van Dyke

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What do I owe my father? Everything! — Henry Van Dyke

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You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it. — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will. — Henry Van Dyke

Henry Dyke Quotes By Henry Van Dyke

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage. — Henry Van Dyke

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Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. — Henry Van Dyke

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Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow
Then draw it to the head and let it go! — Henry Van Dyke

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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

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Long ago Apollo called to Aristaeus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees. — Henry Van Dyke

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You can never begin to live until you dare to die. — Henry Van Dyke

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Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." ... And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered. — Henry Van Dyke

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Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat. — Henry Van Dyke

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Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors. — Henry Van Dyke

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Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul. — Henry Van Dyke

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All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee. — Henry Van Dyke

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The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. — Henry Van Dyke

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Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. - Henry Van Dyke — William Paul Young

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Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far,
Yet God will bring him where the blessed are. — Henry Van Dyke