Henry Van Dyke
Who is Henry Van Dyke
Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. (November 10, 1852 – April 10, 1933) was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.
Early life
Van Dyke was born on November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Henry Jackson van Dyke Sr. (1822–1891), a prominent Brooklyn Presbyterian clergyman known in the antebellum years for his anti-abolitionist views. The family traced its roots to Jan Thomasse van Dijk, who emigrated from Holland to North America in 1652.The younger Henry van Dyke graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1869, Princeton University, in 1873 and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877.
Career
He served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. Among the ...
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Henry Van Dyke Poems
- Longfellow
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour
and riches and confusion,
Where there were many running to and fro, and
shouting, and striving together,...
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- Coopcamprocks: use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - henry van dyke
- Plarasoft: love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living. - henry van dyke
- Ramanhyd99: “use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” - henry van dyke
- Clazziodirect: "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
- Shralpin: "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
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