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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Ellen Glasgow

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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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World
Dent
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Surface
Alone
Passion
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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