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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

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
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Laughter
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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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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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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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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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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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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... 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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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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