“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no…” — Henry Van Dyke

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

Encouraging people to contribute their gifts without comparing themselves with others · Prose work

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Hope

About Henry Van Dyke

10 November 1852–10 April 1933

Henry Van Dyke was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, then a distinct community on the edge of Philadelphia and now part of the city. He died on 10 April 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey. During the eighty years between those dates, he became one of the most recognizable public literary figures in the…

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