Candle Quote by Henry Van Dyke

“It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.”

Henry Van Dyke

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I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

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So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all…

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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

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A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty…

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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Love is not about getting - but giving.

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Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

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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.…

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It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

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Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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