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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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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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... 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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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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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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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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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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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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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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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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