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Ellen Glasgow Inspirational Quotes (126)

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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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