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Love covers a multitude of sins...
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I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on
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for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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Better lose your life than your soul...
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There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still, and loved her pets as well as ever. Not one whole or handsome one among them; all were outcasts till Beth took them in; for, when her sisters outgrew these idols, they passed to her.... Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls. No pins were ever stuck into their cotton vitals; no harsh word..
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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
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When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least...
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose."
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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But, like all happiness, it did not last long...
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Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
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she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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children should draw [a husband & wife] nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and [your husband] had nothing to do but support them. . . . don't neglect husaband for children, don't shut him out of the nursery, but teach him how to help in it. His place is there as well as yours, and the children need him; let him feel that he has his part to do, and he will do it gladly and faithfully, and it will be better for you..
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We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
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books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
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I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
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Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
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freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it...
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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. It is natural to think of..
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We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~
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Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry; Then out in the free fresh air they swing, Under the sunny sky. I wish we could wash from our hearts and our souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they; Then on the earth there would be indeed A glorious washing-day! Along the path of a useful ..
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her...
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants...
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I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!
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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.
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Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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