Frases de Henry Van Dyke

„Utiliza en la vida los talentos que poseas: el bosque estaría muy silencioso si sólo cantasen los pájaros que mejor cantan.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Sin fuentes

„El tiempo es muy lento para los que esperan, muy rápido para los que temen, muy largo para los que sufren, muy corto para los que gozan; pero para quienes aman, el tiempo es eternidad.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

también atribuida a William Shakespeare.
Original: «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»
Fuente: Music and Other Poems, 1904.

„El primer día de la primavera es una cosa y el primer día primaveral, otra diferente. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.  Henry Van Dyke Frecuentemente la diferencia entre ellas es más de un mes.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

„Alégrate de la vida porque ella te da la oportunidad de amar, de trabajar, de jugar y de mirar a las estrellas.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Sin fuentes

„El primer día de la primavera es una cosa y el primer día primaveral, otra diferente. Frecuentemente la diferencia entre ellas es más de un mes.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Sin fuentes

„Mucha gente tiene tanto miedo a morir que nunca empiezan a vivir.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Original: «Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live».

„Aún si encontráramos otro Edén, no seríamos aptos para disfrutarlo perfectamente ni permanecer en él para siempre.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Sin fuentes

„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.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

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.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Time Is
Undated
Fuente: 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.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Fisherman's Luck http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/fshlk10.txt, ch. 5 (1899)
Contexto: 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.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Variante: 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.
Fuente: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.

„Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

„The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

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

„Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

„Genius is talent set on fire by courage.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

„Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

„For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeat
On fields of triumph dirges of defeat;
And still we turn on gala-days to tread
Among the rustling memories of the dead.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

III, st. 3.
The Fall of the Leaves (1874)

„I heard through the night
The rush and the clamour;
The pulse of the fight
Like blows of Thor's hammer;
The pattering flight
Of the leaves, and the anguished
Moan of the forest vanquished.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

II, st. 2.
The Fall of the Leaves (1874)

„Oh, come as comes the morn.
Serene and strong and full of faith, America, arise,
With steady hope and mighty help to join thy brave Allies.
O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire,
Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom’s altar-fire:
For thou must suffer, thou must fight, until the warlords cease,
And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.“

—  Henry Van Dyke

Liberty Enlightening the World (1917)