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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Richmond
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . 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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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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