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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.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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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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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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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 great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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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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... 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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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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Forethought spares afterthought.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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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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