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• There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

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  Art, Form, No Point

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• The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

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  Intelligent, Special, Doctrine

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 279, 1895.

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• A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.

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  Heart, Expression, Spheres

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 47, 1895.

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• I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

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  Air, Views, Soul

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.53

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• I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

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  Office, World, Wealth

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• Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

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  Stars, Soul, Bars

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.39

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• My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.

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  Dream, Pain, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.49

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• This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

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  Sleep, Islands, Discovery

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• He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

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  Color, Grind, Paint

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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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• I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

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  Sleep, Violet, Vapor

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.44

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• Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

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  Work, Men, World

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.92

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• We work and that is godlike.

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  Work, Godlike

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• What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?

  J. G. Holland

  Thinking, Needs, Looks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 27, 1895.

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• Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

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  Work, Persistence

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.90

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• Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

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  Work, Men, Wild World

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.113

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• There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

  J. G. Holland

  Vices

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

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  Prayer, Play, May

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.97

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