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.

Havelock Ellis
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  1. 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.

  2. A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

  3. We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

  4. The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

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

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