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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.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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Souls and bodies should go on together.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
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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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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 like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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