Amelia Barr Quotes

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• It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
• It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
• All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
• It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
• Kindness is always fashionable.
• The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
• The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
• 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.
• But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
• There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
• Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
• 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…
• 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…
• Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the…
• Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the…
• Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
• Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
• The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
• Old age is the verdict of life.
• Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

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