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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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Gratitude, Comfort, Events

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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

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Revolution, Accomplished, Treason

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.237, Library of Alexandria

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Old age is the verdict of life.

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Age, Aging, Verdict

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.493, Library of Alexandria

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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

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Firsts, Steps, First Steps

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Bruised, Limitation

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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

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Soul, Youth

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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

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Men, Treats, Brutes

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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

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Money, Trials, Hardship

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.255, Litres

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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

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Fall, Evil, Lips

Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.243, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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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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Kings, Mistake, Moving

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.170, Litres

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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.

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Nature, Children, Men

Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.41, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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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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Evil, Wickedness, May

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.36, Litres

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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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Sorrow, Quiet, Far Away

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1916). “Jan Vedder's Wife”

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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

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Regret, Mean, Littles

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.343, Litres

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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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Men, Tears, Littles

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.139, Litres

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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.

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Alaska, Making Love, World

Amelia E. Barr (2009). “The Belle of Bowling Green”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

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Reality, Doe, Fiction

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.408, Litres

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... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

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Kind, Trouble, Written

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.216, Litres

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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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Brother, Husband, Fighting

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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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Evil, Mystery, Enough

Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.116, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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Men can bear all things but good days.

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Good Day, Men, Bears

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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

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Shoes

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.102, Litres

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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

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May, Poverty, Painful

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.246, Library of Alexandria

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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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Men, Twenties, Ready

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.94, Litres

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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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Sweet, Men, Bridges

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.386, Litres

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Born: March 29, 1831
Died: March 10, 1919
Occupation: Novelist
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