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A good message will always find a messenger.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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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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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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One should not run on a new road.
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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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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... 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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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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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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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