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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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Happiness
Experience
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One should not run on a new road.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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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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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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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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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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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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... 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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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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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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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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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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