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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

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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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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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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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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.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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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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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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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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