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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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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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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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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 great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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