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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Gratitude
Pride
Fear
Love
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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…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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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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Souls and bodies should go on together.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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