Top 65 Amelia Barr Quotes
#1. Money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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#2. The evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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#3. It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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#4. For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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#5. When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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#6. When we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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#7. Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
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#8. Love, like destiny, loves surprises ...
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#9. If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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#10. It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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#11. The fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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#12. Youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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#13. I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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#14. All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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#15. Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment.
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#16. A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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#17. Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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#18. A little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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#19. Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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#20. Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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#21. Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
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#22. Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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#24. We generally get the evil we expect ...
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#25. A good message will always find a messenger.
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#26. Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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#27. What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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#28. Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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#30. Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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#31. Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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#32. This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
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#33. In any adversity gold can find friends.
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#34. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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#35. A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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#36. When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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#37. But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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#38. Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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#39. If fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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#40. Laughter is always fatal to feeling ...
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#42. The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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#43. But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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#44. No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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#45. To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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#46. That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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#47. In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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#48. To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly
I know not which is the greater ...
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#49. I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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#50. Though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
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#51. How poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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#53. The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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#55. Good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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#58. There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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#59. Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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#60. The breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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#61. Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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#62. Men can bear all things but good days ...
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#63. The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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#64. It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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#65. Trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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