Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
Citations
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Charles Scribner, 1865, p. 132.
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This is a variant of the anonymous political statement, “Where you stand, depends on where you sit”.
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.