J. G. Holland famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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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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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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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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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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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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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.
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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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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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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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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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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.
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A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
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