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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
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Man lives by imagination.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
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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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Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
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