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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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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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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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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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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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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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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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