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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. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone. — J.G. Holland

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character. — J.G. Holland

Humanity is constitutionally lazy. — J.G. Holland

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it. — J.G. Holland

He that cannot paint must grind the colors. — J.G. Holland

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J.G. Holland

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort. — J.G. Holland

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors. — J.G. Holland

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. — J.G. Holland

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me. — J.G. Holland

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. — J.G. Holland

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J.G. Holland

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. — J.G. Holland

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. — J.G. Holland

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J.G. Holland

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. — J.G. Holland

If you want learning, you must work for it. — J.G. Holland

If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law. — J.G. Holland

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. — J.G. Holland

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. — J.G. Holland

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. — J.G. Holland

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

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care. — J.G. Holland

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable. — J.G. Holland

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. — J.G. Holland

Calmness is the cradle of power. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

There are no twin souls in God's universe. — J.G. Holland

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best. — J.G. Holland

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J.G. Holland

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J.G. Holland

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. — J.G. Holland

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. — J.G. Holland

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — J.G. Holland

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. — J.G. Holland

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J.G. Holland

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J.G. Holland

A noble deed is a step towards heaven. — J.G. Holland

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. J. G. HOLLAND — Dave Ramsey

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. — J.G. Holland

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. — J.G. Holland

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God. — J.G. Holland

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. — J.G. Holland

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish. — J.G. Holland

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J.G. Holland

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J.G. Holland

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

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. — J.G. Holland

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress. — J.G. Holland

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle. — J.G. Holland

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J.G. Holland

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

Wants keep pace with wealth always. — J.G. Holland

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. — J.G. Holland

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing. — J.G. Holland

Life always take on the character of its motive. — J.G. Holland

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. — J.G. Holland

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

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. — J.G. Holland

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. — J.G. Holland

We work and that is godlike. — J.G. Holland

Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. — J.G. Holland

It is the life in literature that acts upon life. — J.G. Holland

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them. — J.G. Holland

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. — J.G. Holland

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J.G. Holland

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. — J.G. Holland

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. — J.G. Holland