But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. — 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
