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Best Quotes by Henry Van Dyke
- These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests,…
- Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It…
- Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;…
- Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among…
- The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
- It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
- If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.
- Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
- It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
- Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
- So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when…
- The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.
- Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
- I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.
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