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.

Louisa May Alcott

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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
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
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Forever Joy Lost Peace Time
Better lose your life than your soul.
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Dee Inspirational Life Lose One Liner Soul
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
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
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Name Right Stand Truth Victory Willing Win
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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Children Empty Face Happiness Heart Lonely Shine Sun World
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
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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Consistency Deal Experience Explanation Greatness Myself Observation Pretend Remember See Wisdom
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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Accident Brave Design Fear Kill Mad Possession Weapon
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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Conquer Oneself Win World
Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Best Honesty Law Love Policy
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Greatness Ourselves Purpose Spiritual Worth
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
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Bloom Life Love Precious
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Genius One Liner Spoil
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Beautiful Hands Humble Love
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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Choice Direction Emotion Learning Pain Service
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Beautiful Believe Duty Live Man Right Woman 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
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Man Woman World
Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Friendship Home Love Magic Relationship Story
Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Marriage Oneself Responsibility Right
I like good strong words that mean something.
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Goodness Meaning Myself Strong Word
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Afraid Education Inspirational Learning Myself Storm
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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Carry Easy End Love

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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