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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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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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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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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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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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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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