Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHappy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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