“Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends — all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father who would call us homeward towards Himself — all these are the ground and justification for a Christian discontent; but a murmuring, questioning, fault-finding spirit has direct and sympathetic alliance with nothing but the infernal.”

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 15.

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Novelist, poet, editor 1819–1881

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