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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.
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Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.
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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.
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What do I owe my father? Everything!
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Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
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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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The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
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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 heard through the nightThe rush and the clamourThe pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammerThe pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.
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