Josiah Gilbert Holland
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"Josiah Gilbert Holland" 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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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

The temple of art is built in words.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Ideals are the worlds masters.