Amelia Barr Quotes
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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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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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Kindness is always fashionable.
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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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What is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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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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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
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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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Forethought spares afterthought.
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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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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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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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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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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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 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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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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The fruit of life is experience, not happiness.