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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
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What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
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Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!
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One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
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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.
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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.
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Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
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Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
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I'm only wishing to go a-fishingFor this the month of May was made.
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
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A tear that trembles for a little while Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world Wavers within its circle like a dream, Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
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Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
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Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth - Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary, Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary, Safe to its home in Thy presence above.
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The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.
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Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.
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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.
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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.
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No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
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