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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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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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A good message will always find a messenger.
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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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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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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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