It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Amelia Barr
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About Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was an English novelist and teacher. Many of the plots of her stories are laid in Scotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection of surroundings. Her works include, Jan Vedder's Wife, A Border Shepherdess, Feet of Clay, Friend Olivia, The Bow of Orange Ribbon, Remember the Alamo, She Loved a Sailor, A Daughter of Fife, The Squire of Sanddal Side, Paul and Christina, Master of His Fate, The Household of McNeil, The Last of the Macallisters, Betwe…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Amelia BarrBut the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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 accompl…
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…
Old age is the verdict of life.