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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
Amelia Barr -
The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
Amelia Barr
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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.
Amelia Barr -
Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
Amelia Barr -
It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
Amelia Barr -
We generally get the evil we expect.
Amelia Barr -
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr -
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Amelia Barr
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
Amelia Barr -
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
Amelia Barr -
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr -
The fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
Amelia Barr -
Forethought spares afterthought.
Amelia Barr -
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
Amelia Barr
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Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
Amelia Barr -
If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
Amelia Barr -
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia Barr -
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.
Amelia Barr -
Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
Amelia Barr -
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Amelia Barr
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Amelia Barr -
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr -
The matrimonial shoe pinches me.
Amelia Barr -
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
Amelia Barr