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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• No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

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  Home, Home Life, Nations

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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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• A mind grows by what it feeds on.

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  Reality, Mind, Grows

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

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  Character, Men, Reputation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

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  Heaven, Noble, Deeds

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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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• Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

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  Men, Idleness

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

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  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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• Calmness is the cradle of power.

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  Inspirational, Power, Cradle

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• He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

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  Would Be, Easy, Said

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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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