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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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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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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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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What we buy, and pay for, 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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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One should not run on a new road.
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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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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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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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