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> [That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/that-is-the-great-mistake-about-the-affections-it-is-not-the-rise-and/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

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## Other authors on Tragedies Life

## More by Amelia Barr

> [When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/when-a-man-has-calamity-upon-calamity-the-world-generally-concludes/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/the-evil-that-comes-out-of-your-lips-into-your-own-bosom-will-fall/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [Men can bear all things but good days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/men-can-bear-all-things-but-good-days/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/whatever-the-scientists-may-say-if-we-take-the-supernatural-out-of/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/i-have-seen-that-every-one-forgives-much-in-themselves-that-they-find/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/that-is-the-great-mistake-about-the-affections-it-is-not-the-rise-and/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/no-man-was-ever-ruined-from-without-the-final-ruin-comes-from-within/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/money-trials-are-not-the-hardest-and-somehow-or-other-they-are-always/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/all-changes-are-more-or-less-tinged-with-melancholy-for-what-we-are/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/the-first-step-is-what-i-like-to-be-sure-of-to-the-second-step-it/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/though-mathematics-may-teach-a-man-how-to-build-a-bridge-it-is-what/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/if-a-thing-is-to-be-done-there-is-no-time-like-the-hour-that-has-not/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/the-great-difference-between-voyages-rests-not-with-the-ships-but/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/the-fruit-of-life-is-experience-not-happiness/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

> [politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amelia-barr/politicians-turn-patriotism-into-shopkeeping-and-their-own-interest/)

[Amelia Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amelia-barr/)

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