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
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
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
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
... 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
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr Copy Share
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we… — Amelia Barr Copy Share