„Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.“
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages ))
Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229.
A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words"
However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' "
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„The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.“
— Henry Van Dyke American diplomat 1852 - 1933
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages ))
Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229.
A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words"
However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' "
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Variante: Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
„Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861
Toll Slowly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, buch The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Quelle: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), IV
Kontext: They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods. They liked making songs about one another, and praised each other like children; they were the simplest songs, but they sprang from their hearts and went to one's heart. And not only in their songs but in all their lives they seemed to do nothing but admire one another. It was like being in love with each other, but an all-embracing, universal feeling.
— James Weldon Johnson writer and activist 1871 - 1938
O Black and Unknown Bards, st. 6.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich American poet, novelist, editor 1836 - 1907
Miss Mehitabel's Son; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.“
— Takuboku Ishikawa Japanese writer 1886 - 1912
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
— Elyne Mitchell Australian writer 1913 - 2002
Quelle: Silver Brumby's Daughter
— Roberta Flack American singer 1937
On the song “Ballad of the Sad Young Men” in “Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment'” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/21/roberta-flack-interview-music-grammys in The Guardian (2020 Jan 21)
— Robert Wever English poet 1500
Lusty Juventus http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama/juventus.txt (1557)
— Edward Lear British artist, illustrator, author and poet 1812 - 1888
Calico Pie http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/calico.html, st. 1 (1871).
— W. S. Gilbert English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836 - 1911
With a shake of his poor little head he replied,
"Oh, Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
The Suicide's Grave (from The Mikado).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Norodom Ranariddh Cambodian politician 1944
[Post Staff, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/recollections-king-father, Recollections of the King Father, 3 February 2013, 29 June 2015, Phnom Penh Post]
— Aretha Franklin American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1942 - 2018
John Lewis, "Congressman John Lewis on Aretha Franklin: ‘One of God’s precious gifts’" https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/congressman-john-lewis-aretha-franklin-one-god-precious-gifts/PRXHP5dgRpjhhuIUdjGEsO/, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (August 16, 2018)
— William Ernest Henley English poet, critic and editor 1849 - 1903
Quelle: Poems (1898), Rhymes And Rhythms, XV
— Miriam Makeba South African singer and civil rights activist 1932 - 2008
As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)
Interview with Robin Denselow (May 2008)
