Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Amelia Barr
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
Old age is the verdict of life.
With renunciation life begins.
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
In any adversity gold can find friends.
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Kindness is always fashionable.
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment.
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
Forethought spares afterthought.
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
A good message will always find a messenger.
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
One should not run on a new road.
Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
We generally get the evil we expect.
It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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