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Forethought spares afterthought.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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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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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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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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