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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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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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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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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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 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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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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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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A good message will always find a messenger.
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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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Men can bear all things but good days.
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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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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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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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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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