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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.

Amelia Barr

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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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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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One should not run on a new road.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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A good message will always find a messenger.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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