To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater. Amelia Barr More Quotes by Amelia Barr More Quotes From Amelia Barr 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. Amelia Barr husband fighting brother ... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it? Amelia Barr doe reality fiction ... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down. Amelia Barr written kind trouble ... 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. Amelia Barr bridges sweet men the fruit of life is experience, not happiness. Amelia Barr fruit life-is Oh, the soul keeps its youth! Amelia Barr youth soul the matrimonial shoe pinches me. Amelia Barr shoes move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest. Amelia Barr anger sea moving It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr tears littles men The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. Amelia Barr inevitable hopeful found 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. Amelia Barr alaska making-love world 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. Amelia Barr kings mistake moving 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 Barr events sleep littles Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others. Amelia Barr sixth-sense injustice Old age is the verdict of life. Amelia Barr verdict aging age When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. Amelia Barr treats brutes men Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. Amelia Barr speech silence ignorance what is unreasonable is irrefutable. Amelia Barr unreasonable 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. Amelia Barr discipline sight dream if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. Amelia Barr hours done action
