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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
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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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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
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