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for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.
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I am lonely,
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Virtue was its own reward.
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By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love.
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Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands. ~ Mr.s March
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The least of of us have some influence in this big world; and perhaps my little girl can do some good by showing others that a contented heart and a happy face are better ornaments than any Paris can give her.
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I agree not to expect anything
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Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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Contrary to myth, for instance, intrinsic physical characteristics only rarely interfere with the capacity to give birth. In other words, your pelvis is probably big enough for vaginal birth. Nearly every woman's is. Mental attitudes and emotions, on the other hand, interfere with the ability to give birth far more than is generally understood.
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Stand or kneel with one hand on your pubic bone in front and the other on your tailbone. Notice how far apart your hands are. Now lean backward as far as possible (taking care not to hurt yourself) and continue to notice how far apart your hands are. Next, lean forward until your torso is parallel to the ground.
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Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.
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An Rh negative mother's blood is said to be "sensitized" when this process has taken place. Procedures such as amniocentesis, aggressive external version, and episiotomy increase the chances of sensitization."
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Dear Lord, make us truly grateful for what it is that we are about to receive.
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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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We are, indeed, fully prepared to believe that the bearing of children may and ought to become as free from danger and long debility to the civilized woman as it is to the savage. --Thomas Huxley
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In the Netherlands, the government health plan provides for a specially trained nurse/lactation expert to help each new baby's parents in their home for a full ten days following each birth (with a small co-payment). Hired for three, five, or eight hours according to individual families' needs, this maternity nurse serves the new parents breakfast in bed, feeds any older children their breakfast, walks the dog, helps the new mother with bre..
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I kept thinking while I was pushing, I'm going to get huge. I'm going to get huge!" she said." --
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Trouble always feels personal. But it doesn't mean that God doesn't care about you. That He's out to get you. In fact, the opposite is true. God deliberately put Himself in the way of the ultimate tragedy to save you. That's what grace is...and frankly, He uses trouble to show you Himself.
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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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You have said that a dozen times within the last three weeks." "I dare say, short answers save trouble."
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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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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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