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Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.
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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Germantown
Philadelphia
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Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
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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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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
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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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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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Peace without Justice is a low estate, A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal, We'll pay the price of war to make it real.
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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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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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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
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I'm only wishing to go a-fishingFor this the month of May was made.
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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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What do I owe my father? Everything!
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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
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The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world I am, the fruit of I have done And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world I love,--the only living root.
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Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
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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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