Amelia Barr Quotes

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• Kindness is always fashionable.

  Amelia Barr

  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.

  Amelia Barr

  Moments, Precious Gifts, Given

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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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• 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.

  Amelia Barr

  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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• 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.

  Amelia Barr

  Genius, Mediocrity, Consideration

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• A good message will always find a messenger.

  Amelia Barr

  Messengers, Messages

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

  Amelia Barr

  Love, Spiritual, Greatness

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

  Amelia Barr

  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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• the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

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  Night, Soul, Body

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.120, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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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

  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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• Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

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  Distrust, Suspicion

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.90, 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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• No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

  Amelia Barr

  Men, Ruins, Finals

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

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• We generally get the evil we expect.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, Expectations

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  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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• In any adversity gold can find friends.

  Amelia Barr

  Adversity, Gold

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