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• Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

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  Love, Prayer, Fall

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

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• For those who love... time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Valentines Day, Powerful

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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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  Giving Up, Winning, Order

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

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  Life, Water, May

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

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

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  Fishing, Wish, May

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.8, eKitap Projesi

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

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  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

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  Sleep, Past, Hands

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

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• Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

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  Knowing, Art And Culture, Culture

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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.

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  Soul, Weakness, Unrest

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." . . . And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.

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  Life, Memories, Lying

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.68, eKitap Projesi

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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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  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.9, Wildside Press LLC

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• So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

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  Heart, Adventure, Journey

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

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• The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

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  Storm, Battle, Triumph

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

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• Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

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  Dream, Love You, Love Is

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

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• If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

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  Bird, Would Be, Forests

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• Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

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  Love, Learning, Men

  Henry Van Dyke, “Four Things”

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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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  Courage, Brave, Possibility

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.90, Wildside Press LLC

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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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  Love, Gold, Notes

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Spirit of Christmas”, p.14, Booklassic

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• So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

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  Memories, Heart, Past

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

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• No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

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  Government, Law, Matter

  Henry Van Dyke (1888). “The national sin of literary piracy: a sermon”

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• The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

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  Men, Law, World

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Ideals and Applications”, p.164, Wildside Press LLC

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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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  Names, Gold, Caves

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

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

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  Nature, Real, Animal

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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• Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

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  Country, Light, Rivers

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.15, eKitap Projesi

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• Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

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  Work, Heart, Blessing

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

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