Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Quotes

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

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• When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

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

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• 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.

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

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• The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

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

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

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

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• It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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

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• Kindness is always fashionable.

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• 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.

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• Old age is the verdict of life.

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• 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.

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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (19)

Birth:	29th March, 1831
Death:	10th March, 1919
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Amelia Edith Barr born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England. In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues. Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long.She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine. In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.
By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.

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