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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• There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

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  Strong, Support, Stand Alone

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

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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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• But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

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  Thinking, Looks, Speak

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

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• a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

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  Successful, Principles, Doe

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1900). “The Voice of the People”

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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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• Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

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  Principles, Littles, Too Much

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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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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• 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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  Grief, Passion, Heart

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

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  War, People, Enjoy

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• He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

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  Sarcastic, Knowledge, Littles

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• No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Example

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• It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

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  Heart, Happens

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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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• Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

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  Memories, Law, Longing

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• My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

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  Reading, Heaven, Desire

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• to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

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  Literature, Honest, Being Honest

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

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  Self, Personality, World

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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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• Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

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  People, Trying, Nerves

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• He who demands little gets it.

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  Demand, Littles, Manifestation

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.204, The Floating Press

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• A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

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  Long, Too Short, Novel

  "The Sheltered Life".

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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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