Quote

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

J. G. Holland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. G. Holland
Arsenic
Dose
Fatal
Fit
Anger
Dignity
Life

More quotes by J. G. Holland

Image
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
J. G. Holland
Image
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.
J. G. Holland
Image
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J. G. Holland
Image
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
J. G. Holland
Image
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
J. G. Holland
Image
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
Image
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
J. G. Holland
Image
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
J. G. Holland
Image
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
J. G. Holland
Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
J. G. Holland
Image
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.
J. G. Holland
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
J. G. Holland
Image
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
J. G. Holland
Image
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.
J. G. Holland
Image
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
Image
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
J. G. Holland
Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
J. G. Holland