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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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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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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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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 liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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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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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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