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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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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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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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... 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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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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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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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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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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One should not run on a new road.
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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