J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 6

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• Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

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  Failure, Men, Use

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• Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

  J. G. Holland

  Fashion, Aristocratic

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

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• 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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  Memories, Struggle, Home

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Children, Home, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.

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• 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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  Home, Safety, Genuine

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• The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.

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  Song, Encouragement, Lying

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

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• Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

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  Honor, Care, Danger

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• 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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  Exercise, Power, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.15

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• The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

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  Country, Home, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.205

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• It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

  J. G. Holland

  Law, Rogues, Restraint

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• 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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  Horse, Wind, People

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 168, 1895.

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• My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.

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  Christian, Religious, Inspiration

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.77

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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.

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  Men, Self, Independence

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

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• There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

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  Men, Degrees, Sin

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• Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

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  Twins, Twin Sister, Eternity

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• 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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  Character, Men, Hands

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.22

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• If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

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  People, Corn, Firsts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

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  Kingdoms, Mystery, All Things

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• A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

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  Men, Particles, Nations

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• 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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  Christian, Sacrifice, Civilization

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.263

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• God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

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  Heart, World, Purity

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

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• 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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  Inspiration, Men, Religion

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.78

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• It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

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  Literature

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