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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
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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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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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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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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 no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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