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Amelia Barr Inspirational Quotes (74)

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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Solitude is such a potential thing. 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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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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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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One should not run on a new road.
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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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