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Old age is the verdict of life.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Age Life Old Old Age Verdict

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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.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Away Empty Far Favors Form Fortune Gives Go Her Interfere Luck Never Other Pay Rein Run Sells She Some Them Tight Too World

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

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Leave Life May Only Out Say Scientists Supernatural Take Unnatural Whatever

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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

Topics: Common He Love Lover Make Poet Power Strings Which World

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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.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Accomplished Attempt Aware Events Fear Little Manage Management Place Require Sleep Slip Suddenly Themselves Thing While

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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.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: About Affections Answer Armies Birth Death Depths Domestic Empires Fall Great Joys Kings Life Marching Mistake Most Move Rise Them Tragedies

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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Always Found Hopeful Inevitable Me Ready

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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Away Corner Far Far Away Make Quiet Sorrow Too Woman

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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Just Like Make Men Them Themselves Treat

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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Buy Ourselves Part Pay

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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