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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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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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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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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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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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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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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