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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
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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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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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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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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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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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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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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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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