Amelia Barr Quotes - Page 2

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• what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

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  Unreasonable

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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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• In any adversity gold can find friends.

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  Adversity, Gold

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• We generally get the evil we expect.

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  Evil, Expectations

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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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• 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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• The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

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  Hopeful, Found, Inevitable

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.56, Litres

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• Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

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  Destiny, Surprise

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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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• Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

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  Laughter, Feelings

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.95, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

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  Moving, Anger, Sea

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.57, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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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.

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  Song, Gratitude, Light

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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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• Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

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  Injustice, Sixth Sense

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.495, Library of Alexandria

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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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• The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

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  Love, Crush, Sweet

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• One should not run on a new road.

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  Running, New Roads, Should

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• The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Travel

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.149, Litres

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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.

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  Men, Past, Eggs

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

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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.

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  Sleep, Events, Littles

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.129, Litres

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• For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Forethought, Stills

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

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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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• 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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• Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

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  Soul, Youth

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