J. G. Holland Quotes
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
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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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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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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.
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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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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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Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.
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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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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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Life always take on the character of its motive.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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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.
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Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
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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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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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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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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.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.