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Theories have nothing to do with life.

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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
Theories
Theory
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Life

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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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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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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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