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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
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
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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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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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