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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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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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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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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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