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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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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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A good message will always find a messenger.
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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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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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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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 are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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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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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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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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