Amelia Barr Quotes

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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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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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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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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

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Ignorance, Silence, Speech

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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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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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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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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To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

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Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1900). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon."”

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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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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.

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Love, Spiritual, Greatness

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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

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Soul

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.273, Litres

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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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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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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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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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A good message will always find a messenger.

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Messengers, Messages

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.136, Litres

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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

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Unreasonable

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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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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

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Done, Action, Hours

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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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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

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Fruit, Life Is

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.373, 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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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.

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Men, Democracy, Reign

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1900). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon."”

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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

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Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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