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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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... 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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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
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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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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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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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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