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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

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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
Anger
Heart
Spasms
Jealousy
Nerves

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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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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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Dignity is an anachronism.
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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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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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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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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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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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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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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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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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