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Famous J. G. Holland Quotes
“The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.”
“Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.”
“Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.”
“The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.”
“A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.”
“Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.”
“Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.”
“Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.”
“It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.”
“God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.”
“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.”
“Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.”
“It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.”
“Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.”