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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
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Genius
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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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... 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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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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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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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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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