Henry van Dyke Short Quotes

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No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

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Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.

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You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

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Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

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The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

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

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

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I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;
For this the month of May was made.

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Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.

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

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Hours fly,
Flowers die:
New days,
New ways:
Pass by!
Love stays.

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And so, by night, while we were all at rest,
I think the coming sped the parting guest.

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

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Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

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There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

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The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride: The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside.

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The promotion from all-day picnics to a two weeks' camping-trip is like going from school to college.

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

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Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

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For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

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The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

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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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Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.

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But often faltering feet
Come surest to the goal;
And they who walk in darkness meet
The sunrise of the soul.

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The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.

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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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What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.

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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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