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...
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.
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.
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.
destiny surprise
... love, like destiny, loves surprises ...
kind trouble written
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.