Amelia Barr

Novelist

1831-03-29 – 1919-03-10

Amelia Barr was a British-born novelist who became an established literary figure in the United States. She wrote numerous historical and domestic novels across the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Quotes by Amelia Barr

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.
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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.
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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