Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

"Look around for a place to sow a few seeds."
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"Look around for a place to sow a few seeds."
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"Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
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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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"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."
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"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."
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"Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
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"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
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"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
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"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."
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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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"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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"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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"What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us."
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"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."
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"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
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"Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home."
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"Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil."
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"Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul."
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"Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not."
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"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."
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