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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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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
Self
Twice
Forced
Teach
Learn

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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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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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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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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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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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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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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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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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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 attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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