There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A tear that trembles for a little while Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world Wavers within its circle like a dream,… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
