Fiction Quote by J. G. Holland

“Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.”

J. G. Holland

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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

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Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations…

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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much…

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I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at…

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No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the…

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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…

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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

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“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”

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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

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