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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Ellen Glasgow
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
Ellen Glasgow
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Ellen Glasgow
Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
Ellen Glasgow
It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
Ellen Glasgow
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
Ellen Glasgow
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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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
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
Ellen Glasgow
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Ellen Glasgow
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
Ellen Glasgow
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen Glasgow
