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J G Holland Inspirational Quotes (76)

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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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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's 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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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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Doubtless the world is wicked enough but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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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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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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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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 man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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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.
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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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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
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Ideals are the world's masters.
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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.
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God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
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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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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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