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Ellen Glasgow Inspirational Quotes (126)

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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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He who demands little gets it.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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