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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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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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A good message will always find a messenger.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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We generally get the evil we expect.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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