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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

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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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Beings
Nature
Human
Humans
Love

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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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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 hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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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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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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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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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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