31 Quotations by Henry Van Dyke
- 1. A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
- 2. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at ...
- 3. Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
- 4. Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome gues ...
- 5. Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express ...
- 6. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas t ...
- 7. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
- 8. He that planteth a tree ...provideth a kindness for many generations.
- 9. He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces ...
- 10. I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls u ...
- 11. In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int ...
- 12. Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
- 13. Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
- 14. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
- 15. Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
- 16. Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; its opposite, the unthought part which you say.
- 17. The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th ...
- 18. There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad abo ...
- 19. There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man ...
- 20. There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
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