Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Of all the advantages which come to any young man... poverty is the greatest.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

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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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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

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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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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

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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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God only opened his hand to give flight to a thought [creation] that He had held imprisoned from eternity!

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A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
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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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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What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!

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Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

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

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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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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

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Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

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Nature is the master of talent; genius is the master of nature.

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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

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No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

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The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

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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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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

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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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Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

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