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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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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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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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There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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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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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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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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A good message will always find a messenger.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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