Ellen Glasgow Short Quotes

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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the Valley.

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For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

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

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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

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

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

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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

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Women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

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

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Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

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Convictions... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

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If I eat lobster, and if I don't eat lobster, I shall regret it.

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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

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Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

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The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

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A successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

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

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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

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[Her] spirit of fortitude has triumphed over the sense of futility.

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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

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

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The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

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

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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

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

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

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

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Sorrow had sweetened in his soul until it had turned at last into sympathy.

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