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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.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia E. Barr
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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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One should not run on a new road.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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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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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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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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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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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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