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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
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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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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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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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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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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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