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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Youth
Soul
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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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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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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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