"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

Ellis, Havelock · Dreams · 3 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11440/">Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?.</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/dreams/">Dreams</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11627/">There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/drugs/">Drugs</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11738/">The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/ecology/">Ecology</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12893/">It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/evolution/">Evolution</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15362/">Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/fools_and_foolishness/">Fools and Foolishness</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21558/">Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/jealousy/">Jealousy</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22816/">To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/leaders_and_leadership/">Leaders and Leadership</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."

Ellis, Havelock · Life and Living · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23609/">It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/life_and_living/">Life and Living</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27616/">I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/music/">Music</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28430/">The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2283/">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/obstacles/">Obstacles</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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