Ellen Glasgow Quotes and Sayings
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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He knows so little and knows it so fluently. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. Ellen Glasgow | Refcard PDF ↑