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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
Illumination
Romantic
Reality
Without
Matter
Mind
Love
Life

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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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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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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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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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