Amelia Barr Quotes

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

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

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

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

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

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

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

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

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

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

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

In any adversity gold can find friends.

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

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

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

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

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

One should not run on a new road.

We generally get the evil we expect.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

A good message will always find a messenger.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

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

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Forethought spares afterthought.

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

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

Kindness is always fashionable.