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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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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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One should not run on a new road.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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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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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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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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We generally get the evil we expect.
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