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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
Maryland
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Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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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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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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