Henry van Dyke Quotes

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Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

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
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

Henry van Dyke
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.

Henry van Dyke
Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

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
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

Henry van Dyke
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

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The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

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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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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
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

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

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It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Henry van Dyke
Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Henry van Dyke