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• Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

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  Life, Running, Eternity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 380), 1895.

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• Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

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  Science, Power, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.20

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• We work and that is godlike.

  J. G. Holland

  Work, Godlike

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Future, Inspire, Made

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• Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

  J. G. Holland

  Prayer, Play, May

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.97

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Sky, Heaven, Ladders

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.55

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• 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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  Struggle, Track, Perfection

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.112

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• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Rivers, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

  J. G. Holland

  Fashion, America, Public Opinion

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• 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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  Men, Self, Filled Up

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.41

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• Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

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  Science, Men, Discovery

  J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.230

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• The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, School, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 580, 1895.

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• Wants keep pace with wealth always.

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  Pace, Want, Wealth

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• There are no twin souls in God's universe.

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  Soul, Twins, Universe

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• 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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  Flower, Thinking, Dust

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• The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

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  Men, Gentleman, Veneer

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.55

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• Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

  J. G. Holland

  God, Science, Keys

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Hands, Endurance, Wealth

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• Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

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  Music, Song, Sea

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".

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• 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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  Exercise, Men, Law

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• Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

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  Mean, Power, Development

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• Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

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  Success, Men, Made

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.92

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• Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

  J. G. Holland

  Waiting, Immortality, Ifs

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• And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

  J. G. Holland

  Death, Clouds, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 185, 1895.

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• Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

  J. G. Holland

  Humanity, Lazy, Laziness

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