Josiah Gilbert Holland Short Quotes

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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

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

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

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Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

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

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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

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

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

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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

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Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

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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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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

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

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

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Of colonial New England:
There was adultery in high places and adultery in low.

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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

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

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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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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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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

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

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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 is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

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I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

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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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Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

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