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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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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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