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Domestic Worker Inspirational Quotes (209)

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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
Louisa May Alcott
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Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.
Louisa May Alcott
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
Louisa May Alcott
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott
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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
Louisa May Alcott
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
Louisa May Alcott
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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
Louisa May Alcott
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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
Louisa May Alcott
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
Louisa May Alcott
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
Louisa May Alcott
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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
Louisa May Alcott
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Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
Louisa May Alcott
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
Louisa May Alcott
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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.
Louisa May Alcott
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A faithful friend is a strong defense And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott
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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.
Louisa May Alcott
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
Louisa May Alcott
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
Louisa May Alcott
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
Louisa May Alcott
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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
Louisa May Alcott
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
Louisa May Alcott
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Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you? Fly at me again. I rather liked it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
Louisa May Alcott
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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
Louisa May Alcott
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