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In any adversity gold can find friends.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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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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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
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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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A good message will always find a messenger.
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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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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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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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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