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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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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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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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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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... 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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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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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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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There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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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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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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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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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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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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