Ellen Glasgow Quotes

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  All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

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  Change, Positive, Organization

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• What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

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  Strength, Lying, Down And

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

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  Human Nature, Humans, Overestimate

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

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  War, People, Enjoy

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• The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

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  Change, Stress, Humor

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• He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

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  Sarcastic, Knowledge, Littles

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• In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

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  Sarcastic, Majority, Produce

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “Virginia”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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  Self, Teach

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• Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

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  Valleys, Sanctuary, Spirituality

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

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  Two, Ordinary, Anarchy

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

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  Moderation, Explosions

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• The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

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  Children, Giving, Childhood

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

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• Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

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  Dream, Adventure, Mind

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• I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

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  War, Littles, Killing

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

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  Repetition, Stale

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.352, Read Books Ltd

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• No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

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  Ideas, Someday, Modern

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• anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

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  Jealousy, Anger, Heart

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Principles, Way

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

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  Sacrifice, People, Neighbor

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

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  Government, Want, Mules

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.213, The Floating Press

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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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  Birthday, Lovely, Forget The Past

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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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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  Success, Independence, Credit

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• There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

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  Success, Men, Satisfaction

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

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  Hate, War, World

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