Ellen Glasgow - Nature Quotes

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Surely the novel should be a form of art — but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Ellen Glasgow
In her abhorrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

Ellen Glasgow
Mrs. Bredalbane... laughed with the genial insolence which, it seemed to him, Nature had reserved for twin sisters.

Ellen Glasgow
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.

Ellen Glasgow
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

Ellen Glasgow
He went on endlessly, overcome by the facile volubility of a weak nature.

Ellen Glasgow
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.

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

Ellen Glasgow
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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