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"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."
"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."
"To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason."
"Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!"
Explore more quotes by Amelia Barr
"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."
"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."
"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."
"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."
"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."
"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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