Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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Thou our Father, Christ our Brother, --All who live in love are Thine:
Teach us how to love each other,
Lift us to the Joy Divine.
Henry Van Dyke
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.
Henry Van Dyke
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think its opposite, the unthought part which you say.
Henry van Dyke
I shall grow old but never lose life's zest, Because the road's last turn will be the best.
Henry van Dyke
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Henry Van Dyke
Ah, love in beauty born,
A little while the rose!
Henry Van Dyke
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