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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
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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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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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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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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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