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Where the heart is the mind works best.

Louisa May Alcott

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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Blessing Flower Fragrance Generosity Growth Love Miracle
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Book Choice Enjoyment Friendship Goodness Selection
We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Amazing Best Come Help
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Beginning Book People Thinking
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Help Ourselves Religious Sister Support
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
Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Growth Myself Time Try
It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Happiness Love One Liner People See
I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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Book Death Forget Hero Myself Splendid Wonderful Writing
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
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
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
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. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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Age Beautiful Evidence Happiness Old Play Regret Success Time Understand Work Worth Youth
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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People Shadow Sunshine
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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Bad Children Father God Man Noble Work
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

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