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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Men

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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

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  War, People, Enjoy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Knowing, Looks

  Ellen Glasgow (0101). “The Sheltered Life”, p.199, Prabhat Prakashan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Selfishness, Stronger

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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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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• Cruelty is the only sin.

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  Sin, Cruelty

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• Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

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  Women, Knitting, Trouble

  1932 The Sheltered Life, pt.3, section 3.

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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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