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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Louisa May Alcott

Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Affect Education Understand Woman Work World Yourself
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Bloom Life Love Precious
One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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Easy Happiness Help Kindness Love Pain Sorrow Sympathy World
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Art Garden Natural Rose Wild
Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Employement Time Understand Worth
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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Best Help Myself Opinion Question Settle Thinking Way Woman
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Aspiration Beautiful Leadership Reach See Sunshine Try
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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Evil Money Root
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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Alone Fly Happiness Storm Strong Wild Wind
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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Believe Dreams Kind Life Power Pursue True
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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Alive Friendship Growth Inspirational See Time
The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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Better Hard Lose Lost Man Rule Scars Soul Teach Yourself
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Body Book Company Faith Goodness Love Soul Yourself
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Faith Friendship Treasure
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Greatness Ourselves Purpose Spiritual Worth

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

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