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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• 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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• Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

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  Reality, Imagination, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.161, University of Virginia Press

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

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  War, People, Enjoy

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• though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

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  Happiness, May, Pleasure

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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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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• 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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• Cruelty is the only sin.

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  Sin, Cruelty

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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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  Past, Law, May

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• Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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  Happiness, May

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

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  Winning, Numbers, Mediocrity

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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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• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

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  Retirement, Age, Twenties

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• The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Life Is, Pathos

  Ellen Glasgow (1938). “Virginia”

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• Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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