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Amelia Barr Quotes and Quotations
We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition. A good message will always find a messenger. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance. The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them. Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough, For I am sure of you. Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. With renunciation life begins. Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. 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. 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. |