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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

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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
Reality
Without
Matter
Mind
Love
Life
Illumination
Romantic

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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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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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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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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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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 hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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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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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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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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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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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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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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