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Henry Van Dyke Quotes

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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars!  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) The promotion from all-day picnics to a two weeks' camping-trip is like going from school to college  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) How often a man has cause to return thanks for the enthusiasms of his friends! They are the little fountains that run down from the hills to refresh the mental desert of the despondent  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) 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 Quotes) The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Every house where love abides and friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) A tear that trembles for a little while upon the trembling eyelid, till the world wavers within its circle like a dream, holds more of meaning in its narrow orb than all the distant landscape that it blurs  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) For men have dulled their eyes with sin, and dimmed the light of heaven with doubt, and built their temple-walls to shut thee in, and framed their iron creeds to shut thee out  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) This is the soldier brave enough to tell the 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  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) 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 Quotes) And yet there is an anger that purifies the heart: the anger of the better against the baser part, against the false and wicked, against the tyrant's sword, against the enemies of love, and all that hate the Lord  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow-men sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and heaven securely  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) 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 Quotes) The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good; I watched the battle from afar as one who understood the shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight - how few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) 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  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Let me but feel thy look's embrace, transparent, pure, and warm, and I'll not ask to touch thy face, or fold thee in mine arm. For in thine eyes a girl doth rise, arrayed in candid bliss, and draws me to her with a charm More close than any kiss  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, and every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, but the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) But often faltering feet come surest to the goal; and they who walk in darkness meet the sunrise of the soul  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) He that planteth a tree is the servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The best rose bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes) Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned how to put it out  (Henry Van Dyke Quotes)
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