Amelia Barr Quotes

We generally get the evil we expect.

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.

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

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

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

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

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

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

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

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.

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

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.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

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

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.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

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.

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