Amelia Barr Quotes - Page 3

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

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.

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

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

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

... 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.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

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

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.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

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.

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.

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

Men can bear all things but good days.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

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.

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

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

... 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.

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

... 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.