God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share
The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
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… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Copy Share
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Copy Share
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most… — J. G. Holland Copy Share
