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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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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
Diplomat
Poet
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Place
Shut
Thought
Madness
Take
Wild
Kind
Blind
Thinking
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Strenuous
Life
Eyes
Clergymen
Eye
Craziness
Energy
Insanity

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