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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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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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Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
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Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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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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Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you? Fly at me again. I rather liked it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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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.
Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
Louisa May Alcott
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
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