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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. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)

— Henry van Dyke

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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?"

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