Amelia Barr Quotes

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.

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.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

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

Love, like destiny, loves surprises ...

Old age is the verdict of life.

The fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

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

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

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.

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

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.

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

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

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

What is unreasonable is irrefutable.

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.

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

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

Laughter is always fatal to feeling ...

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

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

The matrimonial shoe pinches me.

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

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

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.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

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.

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

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.

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.

One should not run on a new road.

We generally get the evil we expect ...

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.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Kindness is always fashionable.

Men can bear all things but good days ...