if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
