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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

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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
Youthful
Audacity
Qualities
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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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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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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He who demands little gets it.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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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.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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