Henry van Dyke Quotes on Society
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If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage; If Right made Might, this were the golden age; But now, until we win the long campaign, Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.
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The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good; I watched the battle from afar as one who understood The shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight- How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!
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I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack; The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
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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.