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Henry van Dyke était un écrivain américain, qui a aussi été ambassadeur des États-Unis aux Pays-Bas et au Luxembourg.

✵ 10. novembre 1852 – 10. avril 1933
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Henry van Dyke: Citations en anglais

“In warlike pomp, with banners flowing,
The regiments of autumn stood:
I saw their gold and scarlet glowing
From every hillside, every wood.”

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I, st. 1.
The Fall of the Leaves (1874)

“The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride:
The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside.”

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For the Friends at Hurstmont. The Door
Undated

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

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

“They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold
In glittering flood has poured into thy chest;
Thy flocks and herds increase, thy barns are pressed
With harvest, and thy stores can hardly hold
Their merchandise; unending trains are rolled
Along thy network rails of East and West;
Thy factories and forges never rest;
Thou art enriched in all things bought and sold!

But dost thou prosper? Better news I crave.
O dearest country, is it well with thee
Indeed, and is thy soul in health?
A nobler people, hearts more wisely brave,
And thoughts that lift men up and make them free,—
These are prosperity and vital wealth!”

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America's Prosperity (October 1, 1916).

“Let me but feel thy look's embrace,
Transparent, pure, and warm,
And I'll not ask to touch thy face,
Or fold thee in mine arm.
For in thine eyes a girl doth rise,
Arrayed in candid bliss,
And draws me to her with a charm
More close than any kiss.”

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Love in a Look.

“God said, “I am tired of kings,”—
But that was a long while ago!
And meantime man said, “No,—
I like their looks in their robes and rings.”
So he crowned a few more,
And they went on playing the game as before,
Fighting and spoiling things.Man said, “I am tired of kings!
Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore,
They make me pay for their lust and their war;
I am the puppet, they pull the strings;
The blood of my heart is the wine they drink.
I will govern myself for awhile I think,
And see what that brings!”Then God, who made the first remark,
Smiled in the dark.”

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Remarks About Kings (October 1915).

“I have no joy in strife,
Peace is my great desire;
Yet God forbid I lose my life
Through fear to face the fire.

A peaceful man must fight
For that which peace demands,—
Freedom and faith, honor and right,
Defend with heart and hands.”

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The Peaceful Warrior, st. 1-2 (May 1918).

“This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life.”

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The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens (1904).

“Count not the cost of honour to the dead!
The tribute that a mighty nation pays
To those who loved her well in former days
Means more than gratitude for glories fled;
For every noble man that she hath bred,
Lives in the bronze and marble that we raise,
Immortalised by art's immortal praise,
To lead our sons as he our fathers led.”

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National Monuments, st. 1 (February 1905).

“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.”

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

“For men have dulled their eyes with sin,
And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt,
And built their temple-walls to shut thee in,
And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out.”

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God of the Open Air, st. III (1904).

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

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

“So it's home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be,
In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars!”

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America for Me http://www.potw.org/archive/potw308.html, st. 2 (1909)

“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.”

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

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

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

“Peace without Justice is a low estate,—
A coward cringing to an iron Fate!
But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,—
We'll pay the price of war to make it real.”

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The Price of Peace (December 28, 1916).

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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)
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“Oh, it’s home again, and home again, America for me!
I want a ship that’s westward bound to plow the rolling sea,
To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.”

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Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 21-24.

“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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Another Chance.

“This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk!
The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work.
This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil:
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.”

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The Toiling of Felix, Pt. III, st. 5. (1898)

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

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

“Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds,
And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds.
They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt.
I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.”

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Another Chance.

“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.”

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

“What is Friendship? Something deep
That the heart can spend and keep:
Wealth that greatens while we give,
Praise that heartens us to live.”

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The Talisman, st. 2 (January 21, 1914).

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

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

“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.”

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Liberty Enlightening the World (1917)

“Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,
The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:
Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand
To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.”

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Liberty Enlightening the World (1917)

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