J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

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  Stupid, Pride, Progress

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• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

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  Life, Spiritual, Soul And Body

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• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

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  Heaven, Noble, Deeds

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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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• Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

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  Childhood, Purpose, May

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.109

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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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• 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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  Life, Beautiful, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 394), 1895.

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• That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

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  Positive Life, Positive Inspirational, Positive Outlook

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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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• 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 give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

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  Strong, Heart, Men

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• The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

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  Soul, Liberty, Firsts

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• A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

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  Women, Character, Love Is

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• I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

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  Lying, Eye, Differences

  J. G. HOLLAND (1881). “SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY”

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• A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

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  Real, Men, Religion

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• Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

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  Popularity, Despicable, Knows

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• Life always take on the character of its motive.

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  Life, Character, Motive

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• 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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  Men, Blow, Criticism

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• 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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  Time, Strong, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89

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• There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

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  Patience, Patient, Godlike

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• 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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  Spiritual, Long, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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• Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

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  Mother, Father, Progress

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.234

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