James Ellis Quotes

• We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

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  Inspirational, Life, Hero

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• Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

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  Mind, Ugly, Faces

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• The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

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  Yesterday, Chance, Neglect

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• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

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  Men, Brave, Victory

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• The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

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  Party, Voice, People

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• The mind paints before the brush.

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  Mind, Painting, Paint

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• Literature is the garden of wisdom.

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  Garden, Literature

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• Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.

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  Home, Humble, Men

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• The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

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  Men, Lazy Man, Lazy

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• Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

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  Devil, Way, Leisure

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• Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

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  Regret, Past, Should

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• Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

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  Angel, Men, And Love

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• There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

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  Heart, Sin, Remorse

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• To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

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  Ambition, Blessing, Men

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• The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

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  Hymns, Lows

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• Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

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  Luck, Credit, Action

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• Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

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  Natural Talent, Office, Seeking

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• Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

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  Mirrors, World, Newspapers

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• A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

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  Giving, Mind, Literature

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• Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

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  Book, Taken, Honey

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• Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

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  Needs, Application, Maxims

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• It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

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  Family, Joy, Mind

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• Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

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  Morning, Twilight, Dark

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• Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

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  Writing, Color, Style

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• Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

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  Practice, Accomplishment, Important

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