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Letter "H" » Henry Van Dyke Quotes
«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.»
«A friend is what the heart needs all the time.»
«Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.»
«What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us»
«Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the»
«There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.»
«Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say»
«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.»
«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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