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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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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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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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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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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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