Top 35 Amelia E. Barr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Kindness is always fashionable.”

— Amelia E. Barr

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2. “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

— Amelia E. Barr

3. “Forethought spares afterthought.”

— Amelia E. Barr

4. “I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.”

— Amelia E. Barr

5. “Be not too strict – too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.”

— Amelia E. Barr

6. “A good message will always find a messenger.”

— Amelia E. Barr

7. “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.”

— Amelia E. Barr

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

— Amelia E. Barr

9. “Old age is the verdict of life.”

— Amelia E. Barr

10. “Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.”

— Amelia E. Barr

11. “The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”

— Amelia E. Barr

12. “There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.”

— Amelia E. Barr

13. “No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!”

— Amelia E. Barr

14. “Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.”

— Amelia E. Barr

15. “To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.”

— Amelia E. Barr

16. “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.”

— Amelia E. Barr

17. “What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.”

— Amelia E. Barr

18. “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.”

— Amelia E. Barr

19. “I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.”

— Amelia E. Barr

20. “To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly – I know not which is the greater...”

— Amelia E. Barr

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

— Amelia E. Barr

22. “Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”

— Amelia E. Barr

23. “Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.”

— Amelia E. Barr

24. “Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.”

— Amelia E. Barr

25. “It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.”

— Amelia E. Barr

26. “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.”

— Amelia E. Barr

27. “Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.”

— Amelia E. Barr

28. “In any adversity gold can find friends.”

— Amelia E. Barr

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

— Amelia E. Barr

30. “O love! love! love! Is there any sorrow in life like loving?”

— Amelia E. Barr

31. “Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...”

— Amelia E. Barr

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

— Amelia E. Barr

33. “Oh, the soul keeps its youth!”

— Amelia E. Barr

34. “Men can bear all things but good days...”

— Amelia E. Barr

35. “All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.”

— Amelia E. Barr

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

— Amelia E. Barr

37. “Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.”

— Amelia E. Barr

38. “One should not run on a new road.”

— Amelia E. Barr

39. “Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge.”

— Amelia E. Barr