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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mind, Humble, Proud

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

Love, Jealousy, Alive

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.
Jerry Saltz

Greatest, Talk, Generation

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Georges Bernanos

Faith, Knowledge, Speak

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
Beilby Porteus

Peace, War, Ten

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh

Life, Hope, Denial

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