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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
Mind
Love
Life
Illumination
Romantic
Reality
Without
Matter

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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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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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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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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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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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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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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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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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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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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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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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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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