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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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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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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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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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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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