James Ellis
James Ellis
James "Jimmy" Ellis was a Northern Irish actor and stage director with a career stretching over sixty years...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 March 1931
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
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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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Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.
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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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Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
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Regrets over the past should chasten the future.
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Literature is the garden of wisdom.
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Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
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Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
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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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A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
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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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The mind paints before the brush.
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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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Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.