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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.
— Amelia Barr
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Amelia Barr
autobiographer, writer, novelist
1831 – 1919
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, Between Two Loves, A Sister to Esau, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves, A Singer from the Sea, The Beads of Tasmer, The Hallam Succession, The Lone House, Christopher and Other Stories, The Lost Silver of Briffault.
All Quotes by Amelia Barr
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
— Amelia Barr
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
— Amelia Barr
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
— Amelia Barr
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With renunciation life begins.
— Amelia Barr
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
— Amelia Barr