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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.

Louisa May Alcott

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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Experiment Fear Freedom Goodness Liberty Reality Shame Slave Try World
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
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
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Bloom Inspirational Motivational Snow Success
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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Afraid Heaven Home Leaving Myself Run Sick
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Eyes Love Ordinary Wisdom
I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Fall Independence Oppression Perfection Slave
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
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Better Goodness Humor
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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People Shadow Sunshine
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Fire Glory Greatness Reality
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Book Brain Herself
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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Death Hard Herself Life Love Nature Passion
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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Better Fame Lose Perfection Struggle
It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Advice Fire One Liner
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.
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Business Failure Fame Goodness Life Money Philosophy Rich Simplicity World

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