130 Quotes by J.G. Holland


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    This world of sense, built by the imagination – how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

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    Every man who can be a first-rate something – as every man can be who is a man at all – has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

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    It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

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    The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

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

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    Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

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    There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

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    Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

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