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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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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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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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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 old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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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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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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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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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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