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

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  Heart, Happens

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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 only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

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  Change, Stress, Humor

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• women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

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  Men, Imagination, Senses

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

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  Long, Tragedy, Taught

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

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• There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

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  Spring, Loneliness, Terrible

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.207, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

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  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.26, University of Virginia Press

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• Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

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  Remembrance, Desire, Illogical

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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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