The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. J. G. Holland More Quotes by J. G. Holland More Quotes From J. G. Holland There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. J. G. Holland patience positive inspirational If you want learning, you must work for it. J. G. Holland learning ifs want The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. J. G. Holland love men world The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. J. G. Holland soul-and-body spiritual life There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel. J. G. Holland dust flower thinking Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. J. G. Holland criticism blow men It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows. J. G. Holland use men knowledge Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. J. G. Holland power men science I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety. J. G. Holland rocks names men Life always take on the character of its motive. J. G. Holland motive character life 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. J. G. Holland god science believe The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. J. G. Holland liberty soul firsts There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her. J. G. Holland fighting blow courage Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. J. G. Holland eternity running life The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age. J. G. Holland real love life Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. J. G. Holland discovery men science The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us. J. G. Holland home rivers heaven Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. J. G. Holland growth law home In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. J. G. Holland errors mistake men Ideals are the world's masters. J. G. Holland military reality world
