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Henry Van Dyke Quotes: What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.
         

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.


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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.

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.



Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.



A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.



Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.



Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.



For those who love... time is eternity.

For those who love... time is eternity.



Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.



The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.



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.

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.



Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.





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To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

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It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.



Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.



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Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.




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