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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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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis in
Life

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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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 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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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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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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 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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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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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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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Henry Ellis

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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Henry Ellis

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