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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke

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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
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You can never begin to live until you dare to die.
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Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
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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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No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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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.
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There is no conflict between the Old and the New the conflict is between the False and the True.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
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Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
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There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
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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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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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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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Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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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.
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Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.
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