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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
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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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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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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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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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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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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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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