Henry Van Dyke

Essays in Application Henry Van Dyke

The forces that impel action reside in temperament. The ideals and convictions that guide it are hidden in the mind and heart, A man moves slowly or swiftly, he does his work weakly or strongly, according to the energy that is in him. But the direction of his life, this way or that way, follows the unseen influence of what he admires and loves and believes in. It is not easy to take stock of these controlling ideals and convictions, and estimate them at their true value. It is harder still to arrange and order them in a system clear, logical, consistent a philosophy of life.
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