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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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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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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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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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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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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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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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... 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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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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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 only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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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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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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