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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
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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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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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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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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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There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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