Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
thank-you kindness philanthropy
Kindness is always fashionable.
planning forethought foresight
Forethought spares afterthought.
being-alone voice solitude
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...
love spiritual greatness
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.
running giving luck
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.
love crush sweet
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
science may scientist
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
mediocrity genius consideration
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.
good-day men bears
Men can bear all things but good days ...
night soul body
the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
sleep littles events
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.
kings mistake moving
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.
alaska making-love world
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.
gratitude negative may
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.