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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
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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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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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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.
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I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.
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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.
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What do I owe my father? Everything!
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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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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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Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
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For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeatAnd still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
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No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
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We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.
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Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
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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.
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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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We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
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You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.
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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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Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.
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