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J. G. Holland Biography

Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others.

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Food, God, Nest, Success, Throw, Work

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.

God, Men, Names, Rocks, Sympathy, Temptations

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

August, Giving, Key, Keys, Patience, Throne

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Calmness, Cradle, Inspirational, Power

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Men, Moods, Motivational, People, Resides

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.

Believe, Divine, God, Methods, Nothing, Science

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

Ifs, Immortality, Wait, Waiting, Work

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Endures, Grows, Positive Inspirational, Positive Life, Positive Outlook, Rapidly

Of all the advantages which come to any young man. . . poverty is the greatest.

Adversity, Come, Greatest, Men, Poverty

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.

Earnestly, Fellowship, Perfection, Rightly, Struggle, Track

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.

Blow, Criticism, Hammer, Influence, Men, Power

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Character, Man, Men, Reputation

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Genius, Master, Nature, Talent, Talents

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Knowledge, Knows, Man, Men, Question, Use

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

Man, Men, Precious, Relinquishes, Reluctance

What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?

Gave, Hint, Looks, Needs, Take, Thinking

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

Repose, See, Sleep, Vapor, Violet, Wraps

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

Conscious, Cry, Date, Firsts, Liberty, Soul

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.

Errors, Infidelity, Men, Mistake, Zealous

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

America, Fashion, Head, Literally, Nine, Thorns

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