J. G. Holland Quotes
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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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.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
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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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The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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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.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.