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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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Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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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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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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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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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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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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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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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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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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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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