Quote #43

One should always learn to enjoy the neighbor's garden, however small; the roses straggling over the fence, the scent of lilacs drifting across the road.

More from Henry van Dyke

  1. Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
  2. Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
  3. In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
  4. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
  5. I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real batt…
  6. 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.
  7. He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.
  8. 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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