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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds 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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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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