American - Poet | November 10, 1852 - April 10, 1933
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke
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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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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.
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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
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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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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
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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.
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Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
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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.
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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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