Amelia E. Barr - Man Quotes

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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.

Amelia E. Barr

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.

Amelia E. Barr

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

Amelia E. Barr

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

Amelia E. Barr

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.

Amelia E. Barr