There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing. — J. G. Holland Doing Copy Share Image
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed. — J. G. Holland Men Copy Share Image
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. — J. G. Holland Barnacles Copy Share Image
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. — J. G. Holland Advantage Copy Share Image
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. — J. G. Holland Art Copy Share Image
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. — J. G. Holland Conscience Copy Share Image
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows. — J. G. Holland Inspirational Copy Share Image
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland Accidents Copy Share Image
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul… — J. G. Holland Brown Copy Share Image
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the… — J. G. Holland Body Copy Share Image
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism… — J. G. Holland Child Copy Share Image
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth… — J. G. Holland Assertion Copy Share Image
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around… — J. G. Holland Absolutes Copy Share Image
Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to… — J. G. Holland Bounds Copy Share Image
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes… — J. G. Holland Breathe Copy Share Image
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,… — J. G. Holland Dignity 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 Advantage Copy Share Image
There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is… — J. G. Holland Battered Copy Share Image
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do… — J. G. Holland Adapted Copy Share Image
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most… — J. G. Holland Acquisition Copy Share Image
The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name,… — J. G. Holland Beautiful Copy Share Image
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and… — J. G. Holland America Copy Share Image
My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within… — J. G. Holland Abode Copy Share Image
My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed… — J. G. Holland Christian 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 Age Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the… — J. G. Holland Church Copy Share Image
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder… — J. G. Holland Certain 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 Approval Copy Share Image
