Henry Van Dyke citáty
Henry Van Dyke
Datum narození: 10. listopad 1852
Datum úmrtí: 10. duben 1933
Henry Jackson van Dyke byl americký spisovatel, básník a dramatik.
Citáty Henry Van Dyke
„Někteří lidé se tak bojí smrti, že ani nezačnou žít.“
Originál: (en) Many people are so afraid to die that they have never begun to live.
Zdroj: [van Dyke, Henry, 1921, The works of Henry Van Dyke, Svazek 15, C. Scribner's Sons, 88, anglicky]
„How often a man has cause to return thanks for the enthusiasms of his friends! They are the little fountains that run down from the hills to refresh the mental desert of the despondent.“
The White Blot
The Ruling Passion http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/rlpsn10.txt (1901)
„O brave flag, O bright flag, O flag to lead the free!
The glory of thy silver stars,
Engrailed in blue above the bars
Of red for courage, white for truth,
Has brought the world a second youth
And drawn a hundred million hearts to follow after thee.“
Who Follow the Flag, Phi Kappa Beta Ode, Harvard University (June 30, 1910).
„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.“
Time Is
Undated
Zdroj: 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. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)
„The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.“
Fisherman's Luck http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/fshlk10.txt, ch. 5 (1899)
Kontext: 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.
„Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;
And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.“
Varianta: Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Zdroj: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.
„The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.“
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages ))
Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229.
A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words"
However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' "
Attributed
Varianta: Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
„Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow-men sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.“
"Four Things," Poems, vol. 1 (vol. 9 of The Works of Henry Van Dyke) (1920).
„I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;
For this the month of May was made.“
Prelude
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)
„Not to the swift, the race:
Not to the strong, the fight:
Not to the righteous, perfect grace:
Not to the wise, the light.“
Reliance http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2226.html, st. 1 (1904)
