130 Quotes by J.G. Holland
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple’s uses.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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Every man’s powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best – that to which his powers are best adapted – he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world’s perfect liberty.
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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
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Ideals are the world’s masters.
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