“It is intended that we shall accomplish all, through law, that we can accomplish for ourselves. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.”

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 367.

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Novelist, poet, editor 1819–1881

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