Frases de Henry Van Dyke
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Henry van Dyke fue un escritor, clérigo y docente estadounidense. Se graduó en Princeton University en 1873, donde luego fue profesor de literatura inglesa.

Fue pastor de la iglesia presbiteriana. Escribió poesía, ensayos y relatos. Fue también traductor de obras alemanas. Desempeñó importantes cargos públicos, como diplomático en Países Bajos. Ha permanecido como un autor muy popular, sobre todo debido a su relato La historia del otro Rey Mago , que se menciona en una versión ilustrada por Jackie Morris. Falleció en Princeton, Nueva Jersey. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. noviembre 1852 – 10. abril 1933
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Frases célebres de Henry Van Dyke

“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.”

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.

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

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

Henry Van Dyke: Frases en inglés

“The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.”

The Battle of Life
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)

“To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind,—this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. The more we think of it, the more attractive and desirable it becomes. To do some work that is needed, and to do it thoroughly well; to make our toil count for something in adding to the sum total of what is actually profitable for humanity; to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, or, better still, to make one wholesome idea take root in a mind that was bare and fallow; to make our example count for something on the side of honesty and cheerfulness, and courage, and good faith, and love - this is an aim for life which is very wide, and yet very definite, as clear as light. It is not in the least vague. It is only free; it has the power to embody itself in a thousand forms without changing its character. Those who seek it know what it means, however it may be expressed. It is real and genuine and satisfying. There is nothing beyond it, because there can be no higher practical result of effort. It is the translation, through many languages, of the true, divine purpose of all the work and labor that is done beneath the sun, into one final, universal word. It is the active consciousness of personal harmony with the will of God who worketh hitherto.”

Fuente: Ships and Havens https://archive.org/stream/shipshavens00vand#page/28/mode/2up/search/more+we+think+of+it (1897), p.27

“Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.”

The Toiling of Felix, Pt. I, prelude (1900)

“The promotion from all-day picnics to a two weeks' camping-trip is like going from school to college.”

A Leaf of Spearmint, III
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)

“Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.”

Joy and Power
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)

“Death comes in its own time, in its own way.
Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.”

Gone From My Sight http://www.theribbon.com/poetry/gonefrommysight.asp
Undated

“As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.”

This may be misattributed. It appears to be a direct and original quote from "Individuality and encounter: a brief journey into loneliness and sensitivity groups" by Dr Clark E Moustakas (1971 p15, prev 1968)
Attributed

“The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.”

Little Rivers
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)

“Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.”

Ampersand
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)

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