Amelia E. Barr Quotes

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When one gets near the grave, Margaret, there is a little light from beyond, and many things are seen not seen before.

Amelia E. Barr
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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Then lift up the head with a song!
And lift up the hand with a gift!
To the ancient Giver of all
The spirit in gratitude lift!

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Though in Paradise the lion will lie down with the lamb, in Paradise they will not have to submit their rival political views to general elections.

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Be not too strict — too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

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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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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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There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

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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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

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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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It was one of those beautiful, lengthening days, when May was pressing back with both hands the shades of the morning and the evening.

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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life, even to its first exquisite beginnings.

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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

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The well-springs of love and life lay too deep for the frosts of age to touch. She would be eternally young before she grew old.

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If fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

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Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

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If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

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