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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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Amelia Barr
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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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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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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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... 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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