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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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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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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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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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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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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Men can bear all things but good days.
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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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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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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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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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