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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
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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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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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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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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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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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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