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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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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
Economy
Splitting
Spun
Theologian
Redemption
Bent
Points
Ethics
Fine
Thrifty

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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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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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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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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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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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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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