I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. — J. G. Holland Duty Copy Share Image
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — J. G. Holland Great sales Copy Share Image
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. — J. G. Holland Destroyed Copy Share Image
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle. — J. G. Holland Blessed Copy Share Image
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress. — J. G. Holland Compensation Copy Share Image
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. — J. G. Holland Freedom 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 Bars Copy Share Image
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding… — J. G. Holland Break Copy Share Image
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that… — J. G. Holland Bird Copy Share Image
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 Authorship Copy Share Image
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Anvil Copy Share Image
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect… — J. G. Holland Age Copy Share Image
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment… — J. G. Holland Charity Copy Share Image
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from… — J. G. Holland Acquire 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 Attributes Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland America 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 Earnestly 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 Accounts 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 Built 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… — J. G. Holland Assurance Copy Share Image
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that… — J. G. Holland Action 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 Blessedness Copy Share Image
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J. G. Holland Faces Copy Share Image
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland Anvils Copy Share Image
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. — J. G. Holland Good man Copy Share Image
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J. G. Holland Conscious Copy Share Image
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. — J. G. Holland Achievement Copy Share Image
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Affinity Copy Share Image
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best. — J. G. Holland And love Copy Share Image
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny. — J. G. Holland Destiny Copy Share Image
