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You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

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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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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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
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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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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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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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We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
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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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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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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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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
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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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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
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But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
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Modest egotism is the salt of conversation you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
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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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The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the goodI watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!
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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
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No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.
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No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
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