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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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