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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

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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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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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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Kindness is always fashionable.
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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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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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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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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 great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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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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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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