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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
Experience
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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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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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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 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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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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