J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 5

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• 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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  Work, Destiny, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.115

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• Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Rights, Law

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Art, Light, Use

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 43-45, Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects, Art and Life, 1922.

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Firsts, Ability

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects". Book by J. G. Holland, October 3, 2009.

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• 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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  Mouths, Moral, Conviction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 290, 1895.

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• 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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  Doubt, Mind, Flax

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• 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!

  J. G. Holland

  Thinking, Laughing, Doubt

  J. G. HOLLAND (1863). “BITTER-SWEET A POEM”, p.26

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Bible, Religious, Foundation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 36, 1895.

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• 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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  Next, Steps, Duty

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• 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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  Powerful, Fiction, Littles

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• The temple of art is built in words.

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  Art, Temples, Art Is

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• A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Character, Men

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• There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Patience

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

  J. G. Holland

  Courage, Fighting, Blow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 166, 1895.

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• 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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  Love, Life, Real

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 393), 1895.

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• Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Law, Growth

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• Ideals are the world's masters.

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  Military, Reality, World

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• Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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  Nature, Genius, Talent

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.274

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• If you want learning, you must work for it.

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  Learning, Want, Ifs

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• The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

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  Love, Men, World

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• I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Rocks, Names

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 42, 1895.

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• 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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  Country, Hypocrisy, Charity

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.59

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Self, Independence

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

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  Fashion, Aristocratic

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.50

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