Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes
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A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away.
[Home]
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A noble deed is a step toward God.
[Deeds]
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Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
[Applause]
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Character must stand behind and back up everything - the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.
[Character]
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For the great hereafter I trust in the infinite love of God as expressed in the life and death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
[Immortality]
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For years I have attended the ministrations of the house of God on the Sabbath, and though my pursuits are literary, I tell you I have received through all these years, more intellectual nourishment and stimulus from the pulpit, than from all other sources combined.
[Preaching]
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Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
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God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
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God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity he does.
[Science]
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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to it. - It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business.
[Gossip]
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Ideals are the world's masters.
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In that worthiest of all struggles, the struggle for self-mastery and goodness, we are far less patient with ourselves than God is with us.
[Impatience]
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he makes of what he knows; not a question of what he has acquired, and how he has been trained, but of what he is, and what he can do.
[Man]
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Labor - the expenditure of vital effort in some form, is the measure, nay, it is the maker of values.
[Labor]
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Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
[Law]
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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress, as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless.
[Opinion]
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man, I believe it to be demonstrably true that poverty is the greatest.
[Poverty]
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
[Responsibility]
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