Amelia Barr Quotes

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Evil Inspirational Sorrow Soul

Kindness is always fashionable.

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Thank You, Fashion, Kindness

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Litres

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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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Inspirational, Life, Success

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.11, Litres

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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

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Inspiration, Positive Attitude, Sunny Weather

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres

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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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Genius, Mediocrity, Consideration

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Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment.

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Moments, Precious Gifts, Given

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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.

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Inspirational, Fate, Opportunity

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.197, Litres

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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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Change, Leaving, Aging

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.259, Litres

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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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Cheerful, Mastery, Trials

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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

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Destiny, Surprise

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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

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Change, Mean, Youth

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.28, Litres

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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

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Men, Ruins, Finals

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.116, Litres

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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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Being Alone, Voice, Solitude

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.317, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Men, Wicked, World

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.67, Litres

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Forethought spares afterthought.

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Planning, Forethought, Foresight

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

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Genius, Wells, Can Do

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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

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Science, May, Scientist

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.507, Library of Alexandria

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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

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Heart, Knows

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.5, Litres

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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.

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Giving, Folly, Offence

Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.242, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

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Memories, Keys, Doors

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.8, Litres

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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

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Pay

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.205, Litres

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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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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

Men, Past, Eggs

Amelia E. Barr (2009). “The Belle of Bowling Green”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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One should not run on a new road.

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Running, New Roads, Should

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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.

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Thinking, Shining, Sun

Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.200, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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We generally get the evil we expect.

Amelia Barr

Evil, Expectations

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