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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

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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... 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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of 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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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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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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.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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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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... 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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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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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