Amelia Barr Quotes
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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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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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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What is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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A good message will always find a messenger.
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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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What we buy, and pay for, 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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One should not run on a new road.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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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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A little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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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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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.