J. G. Holland Quotes

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  • If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.
  • A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

  • A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.44
  • I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

    J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.53
  • Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  • Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

  • I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

    J. G. HOLLAND (1881). “SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY”
  • God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

    J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89
  • The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

    J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.205
  • Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

  • 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.

    J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111
  • We work and that is godlike.

  • Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

  • The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

    J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.37
  • He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

  • Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

  • Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 380), 1895.
  • 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.

    "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".
  • Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

  • It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

    J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.40
  • It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

  • Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

  • If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

  • 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.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 36, 1895.
  • A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 47, 1895.
  • There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

  • 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.

  • All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

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