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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
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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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 fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in 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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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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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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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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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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... 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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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