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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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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
Almighty
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Women
Men
Enigmas
Enigma

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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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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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Dignity is an anachronism.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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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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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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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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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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Cruelty is the only sin.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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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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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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