Amelia Barr Quotes
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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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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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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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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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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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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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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Old age is the verdict of life.
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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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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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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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Time is a very precious gift - so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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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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... 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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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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Men can bear all things but good days.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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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.