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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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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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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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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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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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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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