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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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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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... 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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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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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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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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