Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
evil expectations
we generally get the evil we expect ...
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.
fall evil lips
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
evil mystery enough
... 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.
men ruins finals
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
planning forethought foresight
Forethought spares afterthought.
moments given precious-gifts
Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
cheerful mastery trials
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.
change leaving aging
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
change mean youth
youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
inspiration positive-attitude sunny-weather
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
inspirational life success
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
thank-you kindness philanthropy
Kindness is always fashionable.
men tears littles
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.