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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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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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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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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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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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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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... 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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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