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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Science
May
Scientist
Unnatural
Scientists
Supernatural
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Change
Aging
Leaving
Melancholy
Behind
Less
More Or Less
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Folly
Giving
Offence
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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 / Novelist
Men
Finals
Ruins
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
May
Painful
Poverty
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Alaska
Common
Making Love
Strings
World
Love Power World
Lover
Strung
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Comfort
Events
Gratitude
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Evil
May
Wickedness
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Enough
Evil
Mystery
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Men
Bridges
Sweet
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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 / Novelist
Nature
Men
Children
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Bruised
Limitation
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Knowledge
Love
Science
Greatness
Human Relations
Reason
Spiritual
Vagueness
Exact
Feeling
Qualities
Relations
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Being Alone
Solitude
Voice
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Consideration
Genius
Mediocrity
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Running
Empty
Favors
Giving
Interfere
Luck
Sells
Rein
Tight
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Shining
Sun
Thinking
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Accomplished
Events
Littles
Manage
Management
Sleep
Attempt
Aware
Require
Slip
Suddenly
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Dream
Discipline
Sight
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Men
Wicked
World
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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 / Novelist
Inspirational
Opportunity
Fate
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Men
Eggs
Past
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Gratitude
Light
Song
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Kings
Birth
Empires
Mistake
Moving
Affections
Life Death Great
Rise
Armies
Depths
Domestic
Joys
Marching
Tragedies
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Men
Democracy
Reign
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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 / Novelist
Cheerful
Mastery
Trials
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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.
Amelia Barr / Novelist
Brother
Fighting
Husband
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