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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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