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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
Life, Art, Living
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis
Doubt, Sometimes, Means
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Jealousy, Love, Alive
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.
Havelock Ellis
Life, Beautiful, Moving
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.
Havelock Ellis
Nature, Women, Men
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Havelock Ellis
Faith, Human, Cherish
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
Havelock Ellis
Work, Home, Husband
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis
Place, Optimism, Lunatic
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.
Havelock Ellis
Great, Men, Truly
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis
Money, Poetry, Thinking
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis
Work, Women, Power
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
Art, Artist, Writes
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
Nature, Long, Human
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis
Life, Dreams, Long
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
Havelock Ellis
Love, Hate, Place
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis
Success, Different, Failures
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis
Life, Death, Pain
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Havelock Ellis
Life, Education, Knowledge
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis
Children, Parents, Themselves
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Havelock Ellis
Romantic, Music, Prayer
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
Havelock Ellis
Education, Made, Lives
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis
Beliefs, Swallow, Digest
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
Philosophy, Goal, Matters
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis
Life, May, Full
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis
Romantic, Between, Days

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Nationality: British
Born: February 2, 1859
Died: July 8, 1939

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