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Inspirational Quotes by Henry Van Dyke
- He that planteth a tree ...provideth a kindness for many generations.
- For those who love... time is eternity...
- What do I owe my father? Everything!
- There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
- The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.
- It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
- Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
- 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…
- Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
- There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
- Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
- Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
- Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
- What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
- Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
- There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
- You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.
- Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
- A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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