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. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... 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. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
