James Ellis Quotes

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• We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
• Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
• The mind paints before the brush.
• There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
• 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…
• Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
• Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
• 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…
• Literature is the garden of wisdom.
• Regrets over the past should chasten the future.
• Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
• 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…
• 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…

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