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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

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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Happiness
Experience
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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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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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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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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Old age is the verdict of life.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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