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He danced like a grasshopper on fire,
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Our burdens are here, our road is before us,
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.
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take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
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Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal;
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study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or
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many queer things passed through it as through
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blowzy head to her shoulder and kissing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder.
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he came for her sake alone.
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You have said that a dozen times within the last three weeks." "I dare say, short answers save trouble."
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Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good.
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not?
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mother's Diana-like
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children should be children as long as they can.
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Laurie thought the task of forgetting his love for Jo would absorb all his powers for years; but, to his surprise, he discovered it grew easier every day. He refused to believe it at first,--got angry with himself, and couldn't understand it; but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us. Laurie's heart wouldn't ache; the wound persisted in healing with a rapidity that astonishe..
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Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned," exclaimed Meg angrily as she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach." --
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If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen," cried Jo, taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind."
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Spanish* No encuentro palabras para explicaros el reencuentro entre madre e hijas. Son momentos muy hermosos de vivir pero muy dificiles de describir [...]
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I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are. And when the lamps are lighted, it's like looking at a picture to see the fire, and you all around the table with your mother. Her face is right opposite, and it looks so sweet behind the flowers, I can't help watching it. I haven't got any mother, you know.
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We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like. I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us.
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pure-hearted old man, and were both rebuked and saved; gifted men found a companion in him; ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own; and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although 'they wouldn't pay'. To outsiders, the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things; but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the h..
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boards," said Jo. "We ought to rehearse tonight."
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My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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dear me, let us be elegant or die.
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with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners. What the characters of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out.
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I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!
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Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought: Every aster in my hand Goes home laden with a thought.
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lavished
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it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants,
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and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
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sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. When
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God has ordered it all for the best...
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Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love. Dan
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You are getting to be rather conceited my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. You have good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. -Mrs. March
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But, like all happiness, it did not last long,
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WHERE 'S Polly?" asked Fan one snowy afternoon, as she came into the dining-room where Tom was reposing on the sofa with his boots in the air, absorbed in one of those delightful books in which boys are cast away on desert islands, where every known fruit, vegetable and flower is in its prime all the year round; or, lost in boundless forests, where the young heroes have thrilling adventures, kill impossible beasts, and, when the author's in..
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A long night and a happy day had passed. All had been told...
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beginning to
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it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's
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The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Three months' vacation--how I shall enjoy it!" exclaimed Meg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made lemonade for the refreshment of the whole party."
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It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh,
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Grief is the best opener of some hearts,
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This household happiness did not come all at once, but John and Meg had found the key to it, and each year of married life taught them how to use it, unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy. This is the sort of shelf on which young wives and mothers may consent to be laid, safe from the restless fret and fever of the world, finding loyal lovers in the littl..
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I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved, and respected, to have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.
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