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Henry Van Dyke Quotes: The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
         

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.


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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.



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For those who love... time is eternity.



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



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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.



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