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

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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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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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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One should not run on a new road.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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