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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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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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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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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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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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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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