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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis in
Life
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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Henry Ellis
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Henry Ellis
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis in
War
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Henry Ellis
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Henry Ellis in
Nature
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Henry Ellis
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Henry Ellis
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Henry Ellis
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Henry Ellis
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The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
Henry Ellis
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Henry Ellis
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