The great difference between voyages rests not wit... -Amelia Barr

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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Amelia Barr , Novelist
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Amelia Barr was an English-American novelist who wrote historical fiction. Her works often depicted life in early America and explored themes of women's independence and social change. Barr's novels, including "Remember the Alamo" and "A Border Shepherdess," have contributed to the literary landscape of the 19th century.

Amelia Barr Quotes to Explore

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem....
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 vaguen...
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous....
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it....
Old age is the verdict of life....
With renunciation life begins....
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much....
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome....
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes....
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves....

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....