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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

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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
Inward
Necessity
Goodness
Grace
True
Outward

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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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He who demands little gets it.
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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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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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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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