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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

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
Irrefutable
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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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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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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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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