Frasi di Henry Van Dyke
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Henry van Dyke è stato uno scrittore e insegnante statunitense.

Diplomatosi all'Università di Princeton nel 1873, e l'anno seguente al Seminario Teologico di Princeton lavorò come professore di letteratura inglese sempre a Princeton fra il 1899 ed il 1923. Fu eletto all'Accademia Americana di Arti e Lettere e ricevette altre onorificenze.

Diresse anche la commissione che stampò il primo libro di liturgia presbiteriana: The Book of Common Worship of 1906 . Tra i suoi scritti più noti vi è senz'altro The Other Wise Man . Scrisse anche saggi e poesie, per esempio gli inni a carattere religioso raccolti in Little Rivers ed in Fisherman's Luck .

✵ 10. Novembre 1852 – 10. Aprile 1933
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Henry Van Dyke Frasi e Citazioni

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Henry Van Dyke: Frasi in inglese

“The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.”

The Battle of Life
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)

“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. The more we think of it, the more attractive and desirable it becomes. To do some work that is needed, and to do it thoroughly well; to make our toil count for something in adding to the sum total of what is actually profitable for humanity; to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, or, better still, to make one wholesome idea take root in a mind that was bare and fallow; to make our example count for something on the side of honesty and cheerfulness, and courage, and good faith, and love - this is an aim for life which is very wide, and yet very definite, as clear as light. It is not in the least vague. It is only free; it has the power to embody itself in a thousand forms without changing its character. Those who seek it know what it means, however it may be expressed. It is real and genuine and satisfying. There is nothing beyond it, because there can be no higher practical result of effort. It is the translation, through many languages, of the true, divine purpose of all the work and labor that is done beneath the sun, into one final, universal word. It is the active consciousness of personal harmony with the will of God who worketh hitherto.”

Origine: Ships and Havens https://archive.org/stream/shipshavens00vand#page/28/mode/2up/search/more+we+think+of+it (1897), p.27

“Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.”

The Toiling of Felix, Pt. I, prelude (1900)

“The promotion from all-day picnics to a two weeks' camping-trip is like going from school to college.”

A Leaf of Spearmint, III
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)

“Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.”

Joy and Power
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)

“Death comes in its own time, in its own way.
Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.”

Gone From My Sight http://www.theribbon.com/poetry/gonefrommysight.asp
Undated

“As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.”

This may be misattributed. It appears to be a direct and original quote from "Individuality and encounter: a brief journey into loneliness and sensitivity groups" by Dr Clark E Moustakas (1971 p15, prev 1968)
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“The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.”

Little Rivers
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)

“Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.”

Ampersand
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)

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