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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
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
— J.G. Holland
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
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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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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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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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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
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.
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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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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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If you want learning, you must work for it.
— J.G. Holland
If have got my spindle and my distaff readymy pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J.G. Holland
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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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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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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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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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
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
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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
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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Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
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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
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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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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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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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.
— J.G. Holland
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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Life always take on the character of its motive.
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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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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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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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We work and that is godlike.
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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.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
— J.G. Holland