Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
Citations
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. Gold-Foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs. Charles Scribner, 1859, p. 18.
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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.