Henry Van Dyke

(731 votes)  Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(378 votes)  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.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(339 votes)  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(334 votes)  There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(331 votes)  Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

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(327 votes)  A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(326 votes)  Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(324 votes)  Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(324 votes)  Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(321 votes)  Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(314 votes)  Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(311 votes)  Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

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(309 votes)  Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(309 votes)  A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

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(303 votes)  Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(296 votes)  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; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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