J. G. Holland Quotes

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• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

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  Success, God, Work

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• Joys divided are increased.

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  Life, Happiness, Joy

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• The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

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  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

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• Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

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  Character, Men, Reputation

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• A mind grows by what it feeds on.

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  Reality, Mind, Grows

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• The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

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  Men, Rights, Law

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• Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

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  Perfect, Secret, Liberty

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• It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

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  Knowledge, Men, Use

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.40

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• The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

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  Lovely, Secret, Unselfish

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• Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

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  Blessed, Men, Found

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• 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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  Women, Eye, Vision

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• Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

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  Men, Goodness, Thrive

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• Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• 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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  Artist, Hands, Soul

  J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.98

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• Calmness is the cradle of power.

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  Inspirational, Power, Cradle

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• A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

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  Anger, Arsenic, Dignity

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• If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

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  Keys, August, Giving

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• There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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  Motivational, Wrestling, Achievement

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• The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

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  Life, Winning, Doe

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

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  Gossip, Confession, Malice

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• 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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  Motivational, Men, People

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• Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

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  Adversity, Men, Poverty

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• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

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  Mean, Giving, Bird

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• 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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  Self, Wicked, World

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• Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

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  Patience, Waiting, Creation

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