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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
Twice
Forced
Teach
Learn
Self

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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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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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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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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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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.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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