- 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.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "Love and Light"
- Deeds not Words: I say so too!
- And yet I find it somehow true,
- A word may help a man in need,
- To nobler act and braver deed.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "Facta non Verba"
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "Courage," Counsels by the Way
- The worlds in which we live at heart are one,
- The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done";
- And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit,
- The world "I love,"--the only living root.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "One World"
- For men have dulled their eyes with sin,
- And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt,
- And built their temple-walls to shut thee in,
- And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "God of the Open Air"
- He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,
- He provideth a kindness for many generations,
- And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "The Friendly Trees"
- Flowers rejoice when night is done,
- Lift their heads to greet the sun;
- Sweetest looks and odours raise,
- In a silent hymn of praise.
- If all the world were music,
- Our hearts would often long
- For one sweet strain of silence.
- To break the endless song.
HENRY VAN DYKE, "If All the Skies"
- Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind,
- And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;
- For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give,
- And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live."
HENRY VAN DYKE, "The Angler's Reveille", The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
Tact ... is the unsaid part of what you think.... And there is only one thing more potent--its opposite--the unthought part of what you say.
HENRY VAN DYKE, Camp-fires and Guide-posts: A Book of Essays and Excursions
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