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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
— Henry Van Dyke
Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.
— Henry Van Dyke
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
— Henry Van Dyke
The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.
— Henry Van Dyke
Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. - Henry Van Dyke
— William Paul Young
It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.
— Henry Van Dyke
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
— Henry Van Dyke
If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.
— Henry Van Dyke
What do I owe my father? Everything!
— Henry Van Dyke
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
— Henry Van Dyke
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
— Henry Van Dyke
The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.
— Henry Van Dyke
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
— Henry Van Dyke
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
— Henry Van Dyke
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.
— Henry Van Dyke
Like water spilt upon the groundalas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! — Henry Van Dyke
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 ...
— Henry Van Dyke
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
— Henry Van Dyke
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
— Henry Van Dyke
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
— Henry Van Dyke
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
— Henry Van Dyke
Favorite People, Favorite Places,Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.
— Henry Van Dyke
You can never begin to live until you dare to die.
— Henry Van Dyke
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. — Henry Van Dyke
There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.
— Henry Van Dyke
Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
— Henry Van Dyke
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bowThen draw it to the head and let it go! — Henry Van Dyke
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
— Henry Van Dyke
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
— Henry Van Dyke
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
— Henry Van Dyke
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.
— Henry Van Dyke
We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.
— Henry Van Dyke
The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
— Henry Van Dyke
A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!
— Henry Van Dyke
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
— Henry Van Dyke
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
— Henry Van Dyke
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
— Henry Van Dyke
Oh It's home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that's Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea.
— Henry Van Dyke
For those who love ... time is eternity ...
— Henry Van Dyke
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
— Henry Van Dyke
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road ... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
— Henry Van Dyke
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
— Henry Van Dyke
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
— Henry Van Dyke
We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
— Henry Van Dyke
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
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
— Henry Van Dyke
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.
— Henry Van Dyke
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
— Henry Van Dyke
He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been true to the light that had been given to him
— Henry Van Dyke
Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
— Henry Van Dyke
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
— Henry Van Dyke
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.
— Henry Van Dyke
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
— Henry Van Dyke
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
— Henry Van Dyke
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
— Henry Van Dyke
It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
— Henry Van Dyke
A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,- Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.
— Henry Van Dyke
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
— Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
— Henry Van Dyke
You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.
— Henry Van Dyke
What is Fortune, what is Fame?Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave. — Henry Van Dyke
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
— Henry Van Dyke
Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest. — Henry Van Dyke
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.
— Henry Van Dyke
The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!
— Henry Van Dyke
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
— Henry Van Dyke
The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.
— Henry Van Dyke
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.
— Henry Van Dyke
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
— Henry Van Dyke
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
— Henry Van Dyke
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
— Henry Van Dyke
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
— Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
— Henry Van Dyke
I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.
— Henry Van Dyke