Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. G. Holland
Thee
Mines
Mine
Divine
Stand
Sluggish
Stars
Shut
Soul
Bars
World
Senses

More quotes by J. G. Holland

Image
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
J. G. Holland
Image
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.
J. G. Holland
Image
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
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
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
J. G. Holland
Image
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
J. G. Holland
Image
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
J. G. Holland
Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
J. G. Holland
Image
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
J. G. Holland
Image
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
J. G. Holland
Image
Ideals are the world's masters.
J. G. Holland
Image
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
J. G. Holland
Image
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
J. G. Holland
Image
All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
J. G. Holland
Image
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
J. G. Holland
Image
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
Image
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
J. G. Holland