Amelia E. Barr - The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900)

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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly — I know not which is the greater.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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