8 Quotes & Sayings By Josiah Gilbert Holland

Josiah Gilbert Holland was born in 1796 in the small farming community of Hickory Grove, Pennsylvania. He found early employment as a schoolteacher, but soon turned to writing for newspapers, becoming the editor of the Lancaster Journal of Education at age twenty-two. He was an early advocate of public education for all, and credit him with being one of the first to recognize this potential for change. As the editor of the Lancaster Journal, he became a reformer who fought against religious sectarianism Read more

He held strong opinions on many other social issues as well, including temperance and prison reform.

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Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Joys divided are increased. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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The temple of art is built in words. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Ideals are the world's masters. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. Josiah Gilbert Holland