Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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.
pay
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
steps firsts first-steps
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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.
change mean youth
youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
thinking shining sun
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.
distrust suspicion
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
dream sight discipline
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.
evil expectations
we generally get the evil we expect ...