"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."
-Henry Van Dyke
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.“
-Henry Van Dyke
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"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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"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."
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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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"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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"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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