Quotes by Amelia Barr

Amelia Barr

… 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.

Enough

Evil

Mystery

… how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

Bruised

Limitation

… if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Doe

Fiction

Reality

… 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.

Bridges

Men

Sweet

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

May

Painful

Poverty

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

Aging

Change

Leaving

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.

Brother

Fighting

Husband

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

East

May

West

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.

Alaska

Making Love

World

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

Heart

Knows

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Being Alone

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Bridges

Brother

Bruised

Can Do

Change

Cheerful

Children

Comfort

Consideration

Democracy

Discipline

Doe

Done

Dream

East

Enemy

Enough

Events

Evil

Far Away

Fate

Favors

Fiction

Fighting

Folly

Foresight

Forethought

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Found

Fruit

Genius

Giving

Gold

Good Day

Gratitude

Heart

Hopeful

Hours

Husband

Ignorance

Inevitable

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Quotes by Amelia Barr

Amelia Barr

… 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.

… how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

… if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

… 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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