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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 Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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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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... 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 little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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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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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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Old age is the verdict of life.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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