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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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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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