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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
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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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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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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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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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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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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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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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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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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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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