Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
hopeful found inevitable
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
alaska making-love world
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.
sorrow quiet far-away
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
kings mistake moving
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.
sleep littles events
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.
mediocrity genius consideration
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
injustice sixth-sense
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
age old-age verdict
Old age is the verdict of life.
men treats brutes
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
gratitude negative may
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
forgiveness forgiving enemy
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
evil wickedness may
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
sweet men bridges
... 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.
soul youth
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!