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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.
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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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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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He who demands little gets it.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
Ellen Glasgow
women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
Ellen Glasgow
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
Ellen Glasgow
True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
Ellen Glasgow
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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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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. . . 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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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
Ellen Glasgow
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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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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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
Ellen Glasgow
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Ellen Glasgow
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Ellen Glasgow
