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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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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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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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