Ancestor Quote 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…

— Amelia Barr

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

— Amelia Barr

Men can bear all things but good days.

— Amelia Barr

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

— Amelia Barr

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

— 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…

— Amelia Barr

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

— Amelia Barr

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

— Amelia Barr

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

— Amelia Barr

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

— 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…

— Amelia Barr

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

— Amelia Barr