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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.

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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When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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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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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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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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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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