Amelia E. Barr Quotes

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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

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We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

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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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Trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage.

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The first step is what I like to be sure of... to the second step it often binds you.

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A little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

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Youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

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The evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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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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If you are tired of easy days, Arenta, go, and take a husband.

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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

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Men can bear all things but good days...

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When answering was likely to provoke anger, she kept silence and talked the matter over with herself. A very wise plan. For where shall we find a friend so intimate, so discreet, so conciliating as self? Who can speak to us so well? — without obscurity, without words, without passion. Yes, indeed: 'I will talk to myself' is a very significant phrase.

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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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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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We generally get the evil we expect...

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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

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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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Money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

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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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