J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 3

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• Life always take on the character of its motive.

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  Life, Character, Motive

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

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  Patience, Patient, Godlike

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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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• 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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• Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Waiting, Dreamer

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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.

  J. G. Holland

  Music, Song, Sea

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".

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• Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

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  Soul, Body, Should

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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.

  J. G. Holland

  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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Humanity, Lazy, Laziness

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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 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.

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  Christian, Character, Men

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• The temple of art is built in words.

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  Art, Temples, Art Is

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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.

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  Men, Rocks, Names

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

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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.

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  Sky, Heaven, Ladders

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

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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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• 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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• 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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