Amelia Barr Quotes
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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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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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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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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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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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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... 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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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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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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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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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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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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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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 evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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Men can bear all things but good days.
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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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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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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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