Amelia Barr quotes

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. (Amelia Barr)
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. View quote
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. View quote
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. View quote
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? View quote
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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 to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. View quote
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Kindness is always fashionable. View quote
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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 vagueness of greatness about it. View quote
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul. View quote
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better. View quote
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. (Amelia Barr)
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. View quote
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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 thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. View quote
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. View quote
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Old age is the verdict of life. View quote
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. View quote
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. View quote
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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. View quote
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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)

Amelia Barr

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: March 29, 1831
Died: March 10, 1919
Quotes count: 21

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