To mourn was distressing, but ...

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
 Ellen Glasgow

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
 Ellen Glasgow
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
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...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
 Ellen Glasgow