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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. 
--Henry Van Dyke
 
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. 
--Henry Van Dyke 

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 

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent 
if no birds sang except those that sang best. 
--Henry Van Dyke 

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - 
stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - 
and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago 
is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. 
--Henry Van Dyke