A Quote by Carlo Blasis

The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

Carlo Blasis

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Carlo Blasis
Italian - Choreographer
November 4, 1797 - January 15, 1878

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The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

John Stuart Mill

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Jimmy Swaggart

The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.

Louis Agassiz

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D. H. Lawrence

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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.