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One should not run on a new road.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Old age is the verdict of 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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... 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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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