Top 100 J G Holland Quotes
#1. God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. J. G. HOLLAND
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#2. Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
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#3. All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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#4. We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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#5. Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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#6. A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
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#7. A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
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#8. Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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#9. It is better to be a self-made man,
filled up according to God's original pattern,
than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
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#10. The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
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#11. Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
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#13. A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
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#14. Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction
this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
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#15. Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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#16. How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it
that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
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#17. It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
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#18. There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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#19. Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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#20. Every man who can be a first-rate something
as every man can be who is a man at all
has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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#21. If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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#22. In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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#23. Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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#25. Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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#26. The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
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#27. Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
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#28. Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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#29. What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
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#30. If you want learning, you must work for it.
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#32. All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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#33. Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
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#34. The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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#35. Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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#36. Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best
that to which his powers are best adapted
he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.
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#37. Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
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#38. I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins
particularly fashionable sins.
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#39. God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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#40. Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.
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#41. All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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#42. The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
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#43. I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
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#44. Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
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#45. There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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#46. Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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#48. What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!
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#49. Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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#50. Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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#51. A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
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#52. A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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#53. In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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#54. A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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#55. There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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#56. There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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#57. Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
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#58. The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
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#60. The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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#61. No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty
a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
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#62. No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
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#63. Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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#64. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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#65. The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
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#66. Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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#67. A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
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#68. The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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#69. No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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#70. It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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#71. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
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#72. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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#73. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
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#74. Life always take on the character of its motive.
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#75. I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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#76. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
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#77. The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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#78. There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
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#79. The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
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#80. The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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#81. This world of sense, built by the imagination
how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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#82. God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
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#83. It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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#84. A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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#85. Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
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#86. Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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#87. The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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#88. Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
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#89. Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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#90. He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
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#91. God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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#92. Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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#93. Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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#94. Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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#95. The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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#96. It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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#97. Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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#98. A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
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#99. God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.
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#100. Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
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