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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
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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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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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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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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... 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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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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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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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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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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We generally get the evil we expect.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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