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Henry van Dyke Quotes

1852–1933 United States

Henry van Dyke (10 November 1852 – 10 April 1933) was an American author, educator, poet, playwright, and clergyman.

United States
19th-century poets
Educators
Novelists
Playwrights

Also known as: Dyke, Henry van, Henry Van Dyke

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53 quotes

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Joy and Power (1903)

Two honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, "What luck?"

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Little Rivers (1895)

Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.

The Ruling Passion (1901)

Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.

Little Rivers (1895)

This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life.

The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens (1904)

The promotion from all-day picnics to a two weeks' camping-trip is like going from school to college.

Little Rivers (1895)

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride:
The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside.

The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.

Little Rivers (1895)

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

Joy and Power (1903)

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Peace without Justice is a low estate,—
A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,—
We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

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

America for Me (1909)

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

Joy and Power (1903)

Not to the swift, the race:
Not to the strong, the fight:
Not to the righteous, perfect grace:
Not to the wise, the light.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry van Dyke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.