J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 6

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• Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

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  Waiting, Immortality, Ifs

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• Ideals are the world's masters.

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  Military, Reality, World

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• Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

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  Home, Law, Growth

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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.

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  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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• The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

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  Soul, Faces, Form

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.37

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• The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

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  Selfishness, World, Facts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 48, 1895.

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• A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

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  Men, Doe, Sin

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• The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

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  Animal, Men, Self

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• The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

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  Character, Power, Two

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

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  Honor, Care, Danger

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• To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

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  Struggle, Track, Perfection

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.112

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

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  Courage, Fighting, Blow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 166, 1895.

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

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  Law, Rogues, Restraint

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

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  Literature

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• If you want learning, you must work for it.

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  Learning, Want, Ifs

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• The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

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  Love, Men, World

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• Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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  Nature, Genius, Talent

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.274

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• The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

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  Love, Life, Real

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

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• God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

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  God, Believe, Science

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