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• It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Desire

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• And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.

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  Love, Love Is, World

  "Little Rivers".

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• Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

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  Sarcastic, Imbeciles, Jazz

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• A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

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  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

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  Soul, Influence, Members

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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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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kindness

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• Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

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  Life

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• 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.

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  Life, Heart, Night

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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

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  Often Is, Wonderful, Ready

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Story of Other Wise Man”, p.10, Editora Dracaena

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• Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

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  Valentines Day, Meaningful, Famous Love

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

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  Dare, Dies

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• Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

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  Love, Heart, Immortal

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

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  Looks, Seeds

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• All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee.

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  Stars, Angel, Sea

  Henry Van Dyke, “Hymn Of Joy”

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• Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

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  Love, Inspirational, Running

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• Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

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  Courage, Spring, Adventure

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.212, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

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  Love, Giving, Honor

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

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  Personality, Independence, Progress

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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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  Believe, Heart, Two

  Henry Van Dyke (1924). “Six Days of the Week: A Book of Thoughts about Life and Religion”

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• A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

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  Integrity, Sensitive, Clean

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

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  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Soul

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.

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  Faith, Dream, Stars

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.

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  Friendship, Peace, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke, “God Of The Open Air”

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• Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

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  Thinking, Unsaid, Tact

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts”, p.37, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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.

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  Dream, Circles, Tears

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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