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Henry Van Dyke Quotes: 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.


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



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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.



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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.



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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.



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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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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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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.





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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.



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I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.




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