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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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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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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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... 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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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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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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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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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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Men can bear all things but good days.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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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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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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