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J. G. Holland
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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.
J. G. Holland
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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 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.
J. G. Holland
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J. G. Holland
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J. G. Holland
Calmness is the cradle of power.
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
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
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
J. G. Holland
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
J. G. Holland
The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
J. G. Holland
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
J. G. Holland
There are no twin souls in God's universe.
J. G. Holland
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
J. G. Holland
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
J. G. Holland
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
J. G. Holland
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
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
J. G. Holland
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland
