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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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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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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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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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