Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
shoes
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
nature children men
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.
money trials hardship
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
adversity gold
In any adversity gold can find friends.
destiny surprise
... love, like destiny, loves surprises ...
evil mystery enough
... 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.
kind trouble written
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
fruit life-is
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
laughter feelings
laughter is always fatal to feeling ...
done action hours
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
anger moving sea
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
unreasonable
what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
sorrow quiet far-away
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
running new-roads should
One should not run on a new road.