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Thursday 8 December 2011

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Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

This quotation has also been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933).

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Misattibution. By the Chinese author Lin Yutang (1895-1976) in his book, On the Wisdom of America (New York: John Day, 1950) p. 446:

Thoreau once thought the moon was larger over the United States than over the Old World, the sky bluer, the stars brighter, the thunder louder, the rivers longer, the mountains higher, the prairies vaster, and he mystically concluded that the spirit of man in America should be larger and more expansive "else why was America discovered?" Thoreau was wrong, and Thoreau was right. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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