Amelia Barr Quotes & Sayings

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating. — Amelia Barr

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished. — Amelia Barr

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

In any adversity gold can find friends. — Amelia Barr

How poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them. — Amelia Barr

Men can bear all things but good days ... — Amelia Barr

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. — 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 world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong. — Amelia Barr

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

A good message will always find a messenger. — Amelia Barr

Oh, the soul keeps its youth! — Amelia Barr

If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. — Amelia Barr

A little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them. — Amelia Barr

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. — Amelia Barr

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all. — Amelia Barr

The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul. — Amelia Barr

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow. — Amelia Barr

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

If fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it? — Amelia Barr

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. — Amelia Barr

One should not run on a new road. — Amelia Barr

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul. — Amelia Barr

All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others. — Amelia Barr

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

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. — Amelia Barr

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on. — 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 to be civil and sweet-tempered. — Amelia Barr

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it. — Amelia Barr

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

When we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment. — Amelia Barr

Youth is always sure that change must mean something better. — Amelia Barr

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly
I know not which is the greater ... — Amelia Barr

Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest. — Amelia Barr

Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment. — Amelia Barr

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? — Amelia Barr

What is unreasonable is irrefutable. — Amelia Barr

Love, like destiny, loves surprises ... — Amelia Barr

Trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down. — Amelia Barr

Laughter is always fatal to feeling ... — Amelia Barr

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. — Amelia Barr

Money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. — Amelia Barr

With renunciation life begins. — Amelia Barr

Kindness is always fashionable. — Amelia Barr

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. — Amelia Barr

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

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. — Amelia Barr

Good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life. — Amelia Barr

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. — Amelia Barr

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. — Amelia Barr

We generally get the evil we expect ... — Amelia Barr

The evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall. — Amelia Barr

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves. — Amelia Barr

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. — Amelia Barr

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

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. — Amelia Barr

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

The fruit of life is experience, not happiness. — Amelia Barr

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life. — Amelia Barr

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

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

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty. — Amelia Barr

Old age is the verdict of life. — Amelia Barr

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse. — Amelia Barr

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr

The matrimonial shoe pinches me. — Amelia Barr