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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

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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
Honest
Almost
Literature
Difficult
Life
Popular

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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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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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