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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
J. G. Holland
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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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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
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.
J. G. Holland
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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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.
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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.
J. G. Holland
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.
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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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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
J. G. Holland
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
J. G. Holland
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
J. G. Holland
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.
J. G. Holland
So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
J. G. Holland
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
J. G. Holland
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
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
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!
J. G. Holland
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
J. G. Holland
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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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