Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. J. G. Holland More Quotes by J. G. Holland More Quotes From J. G. Holland Geology gives us a key to the patience of God. J. G. Holland keys god science What is the little one thinking about? J. G. Holland doubt laughing thinking A noble deed is a step towards heaven. J. G. Holland noble deeds heaven A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. J. G. Holland arsenic dignity anger 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. J. G. Holland artist soul hands Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. J. G. Holland music sea song A mind grows by what it feeds on. J. G. Holland grows mind reality It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern. J. G. Holland filled-up self men Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. J. G. Holland body soul should Wants keep pace with wealth always. J. G. Holland wealth pace want Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them. J. G. Holland made success men Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. J. G. Holland development power mean And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified. J. G. Holland light clouds death Humanity is constitutionally lazy. J. G. Holland lazy laziness humanity 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 will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not. J. G. Holland dreamer waiting men 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. J. G. Holland endurance wealth hands 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. J. G. Holland healthy play children Immortality--twin sister of Eternity. J. G. Holland twin-sister twins eternity Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. J. G. Holland sacrifice christian civilization No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. J. G. Holland home-life nations home
