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All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping rapidly up the five stone arches of the bridge where the she stood watching the wide rainy valley up which the tongue of river finally lost itself in a gray country of winter elms.

H.E. Bates
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All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping rapidly up the five stone arches of the bridge where the she stood watching the wide rainy valley up which the tongue of river finally lost itself in a gray country of winter elms.

H.E. Bates, The Feast of July
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By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke
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By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke
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We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Matthew Sweet
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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke
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Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Van Dyke
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke
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