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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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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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He who demands little gets it.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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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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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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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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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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