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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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One should not run on a new road.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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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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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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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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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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