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He who demands little gets it.

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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
Demand
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Littles
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Manifestation
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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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... 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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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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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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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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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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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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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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