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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

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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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Strength
Stand
Support
Alone
Strong

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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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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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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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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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.
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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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