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Henry Van Dyke

"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet
Agreeable, Rivers
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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet
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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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"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."
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"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
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"Time is 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."
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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
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"Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key."
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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
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"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."
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"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
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