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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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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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Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
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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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Mothers can forgive anything!
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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.
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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.
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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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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