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The fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
Amelia Barr
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Amelia Barr -
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Amelia Barr -
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
Amelia Barr -
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr -
We generally get the evil we expect.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
Amelia Barr
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The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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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 first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
Amelia Barr -
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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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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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
Amelia Barr
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Amelia Barr -
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Amelia Barr -
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Amelia Barr
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The matrimonial shoe pinches me.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr -
Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
Amelia Barr -
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
Amelia Barr