J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

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  Twins, Twin Sister, Eternity

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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.

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  Bible, Religious, Foundation

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

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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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• 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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• All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

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  Kingdoms, Mystery, All Things

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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.

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  Future, Inspire, Made

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• Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

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  Children, Play, Healthy

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.88

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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.

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  Men, Firsts, Ability

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

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  Men, Reluctance

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.243

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• Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

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  Wisdom, Affinity

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• We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

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  Fall, Men, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 577, 1895.

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• So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.

  J. G. Holland

  Father, Believe, Discipline

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 115, 1895.

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• Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

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  Anchors, Wealth, Trustworthy

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