J. G. Holland Quotes
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Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.
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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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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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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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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.
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
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A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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Ideals are the world's masters.