Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Jackson van Dykewas an American author, educator, and clergyman...
friendship relationship true-friend
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
friendship heart giving
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
love love-is world
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
coming gratitude greet love running visit welcome
Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
love rose littles
A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!
song sweet heart
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.
strong pride doors
The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.
flower night hymns
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
courage brave possibility
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
heart giving luck
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.
running courage children
The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.
courage army soul
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
autumn glowing gold
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.
flower heart roots
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.