Famous quotes containing the words van, dyke and/or show:
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (18531890)
“Oh, its home again, and home again, America for me!
I want a ship thats 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.”
—Henry Van Dyke (18521933)
“Have we no culture, no refinement,but skill only to live coarsely and serve the Devil?to acquire a little worldly wealth, or fame, or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender and living kernel to us? Shall our institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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