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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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