130 Quotes by J.G. Holland


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    I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins – particularly fashionable sins.

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    Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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    A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

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    There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

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    We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

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    Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

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    A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life’s best rewards and life’s best defences.

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    If we will measure other people’s corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

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