Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. J. G. Holland More Quotes by J. G. Holland More Quotes From J. G. Holland Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. J. G. Holland talent genius nature God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die. J. G. Holland strong heart time A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table. J. G. Holland christian character men The temple of art is built in words. J. G. Holland art-is temples art No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. J. G. Holland genuine safety home The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way. J. G. Holland encouragement song lying Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care. J. G. Holland care honor danger God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. J. G. Holland bird giving mean To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known. J. G. Holland track perfection struggle It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law. J. G. Holland restraint rogues law The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty. J. G. Holland rights law men It is the life in literature that acts upon life. J. G. Holland literature 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. J. G. Holland kind giving men In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be. J. G. Holland home men children 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. J. G. Holland struggle home memories 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. J. G. Holland ladders sky heaven Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. J. G. Holland rights law men 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. J. G. Holland light use art 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. J. G. Holland ability men firsts if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. J. G. Holland flax doubt mind
