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title: "1 Strength Won Quotes By J. G. Holland"
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> [How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/how-long-must-the-church-live-before-it-will-learn-that-strength-is/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

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## More by J. G. Holland

> [That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/that-which-grows-fast-withers-as-rapidly-that-which-grows-slow-endures/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/the-faculty-of-self-help-is-that-which-distinguished-man-from-animals/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/poet-forger-of-ideals-dreamer-among-the-possibilities-of-life-prophet/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/in-my-judgment-a-great-mistake-has-been-made-by-well-meaning-and/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/i-stand-by-my-kind-and-i-thank-god-for-the-temptations-that-have/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/no-man-ever-feels-the-restraint-of-law-so-long-as-he-remains-within/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/all-who-become-men-of-power-reach-their-estate-by-the-same-self/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/preceptive-wisdom-that-has-not-been-vivified-by-life-has-in-itself-no/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/scholarship-save-by-accident-is-never-the-measure-of-a-man-s-power/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/god-gives-every-bird-its-food-but-he-does-not-throw-it-into-its-nest-j/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [Humanity is constitutionally lazy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/humanity-is-constitutionally-lazy/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [It is the life in literature that acts upon life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/it-is-the-life-in-literature-that-acts-upon-life/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/a-fortune-won-in-a-day-is-lost-in-a-day-a-fortune-won-slowly-and/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/i-account-the-office-of-benefactor-or-almoner-to-which-god-appoints/)

[J. G. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-g-holland/)

> [Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-g-holland/who-never-walks-save-where-he-sees-men-s-tracks-makes-no-discoveries/)

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