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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
Happens
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React
Stress
Motivational
Attitude
Happiness
Inspirational

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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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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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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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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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He who demands little gets it.
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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