But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.


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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in t...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
GOD, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hand...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the D...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealin...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched t...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Ideals are the worlds masters.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction a...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Joys divided are increased.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
SIR JOSIAH STAMP
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is compos...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in t...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race ...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Ideals are the world's masters.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The temple of art is built in words.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
JOSIAH CHARLES STAMP
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but th...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of th...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anyt...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspi...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
The depleted ranks of peers are annually replenished by fresh appointments from the ranks of its hig...
MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy an...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
His true monument lies...
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astound...
JOSIAH CHARLES STAMP
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
These men are worthy heirs to the tradition of Washington and Lee and Marshall, men who know their b...
MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING
It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern in...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, witho...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, no...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being be...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (use...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its wi...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)