J.G. Holland Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by J.G. Holland
J.G. Holland Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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.
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.
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
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.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
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.
filled up according to God's original pattern,
than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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.
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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.
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.
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.
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.