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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
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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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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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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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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