A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J. G. HOLLANDMany men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
More J. G. Holland Quotes
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The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God’s world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins–particularly fashionable sins.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
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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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