Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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