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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.

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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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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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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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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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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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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
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