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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

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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
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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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He who demands little gets it.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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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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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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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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