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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Treason
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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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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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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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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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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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We generally get the evil we expect.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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