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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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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
Motivational
Attitude
Happiness
Inspirational
Happens
Important
React
Stress

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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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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 have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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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 hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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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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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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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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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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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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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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