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1. "He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him." ~ Henry Van Dyke
2. "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with." ~ Henry Van Dyke
3. "Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key." ~ Henry Van Dyke
4. "What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us." ~ Henry Van Dyke
5. "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
6. "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why." ~ Henry Van Dyke
7. "Look around for a place to sow a few seeds." ~ Henry Van Dyke
8. "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
9. "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
10. "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month." ~ Henry Van Dyke
11. "Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~ Henry Van Dyke
12. "As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge." ~ Henry Van Dyke
13. "Genius is talent set on fire by courage." ~ Henry Van Dyke
14. "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." ~ Henry Van Dyke
15. "Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." ~ Henry Van Dyke
16. "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
17. "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." ~ Henry Van Dyke
18. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." ~ Henry Van Dyke
19. "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest." ~ Henry Van Dyke
20. "There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher." ~ Henry Van Dyke
21. "There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament." ~ Henry Van Dyke
22. "A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war." ~ Henry Van Dyke
23. "The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it, sleeps the unborn hourIn 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." ~ Henry Van Dyke
24. "Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he who walks in love may wander far,Yet God will bring him where the blessed are." ~ Henry Van Dyke

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The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues"
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