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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

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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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Anything
Heart
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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