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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

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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
Though
Happiness
Cannot
May
Bought
Price
Pleasure

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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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He who demands little gets it.
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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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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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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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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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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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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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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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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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