Emotion, feeling — these are well enough if they feed the s… - Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Emotion, feeling — these are well enough if they feed the springs of power. Prayer, praise, preaching — these are all good and never to be dispensed with; but if the life to which they minister have no manifestation out of them, it is a failure.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was an American novelist, essayist, poet and spiritual mentor to the Nation in the years following the Civil War.

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Alternative Names: J. G. Holland • Timothy Titcomb

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