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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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One should not run on a new road.
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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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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When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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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 is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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