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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis
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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
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Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock 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.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
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The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
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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.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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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.
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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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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.
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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