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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

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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
Imagination
Women
Men
Love
Senses

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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 transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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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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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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