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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.Louisa May Alcott
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Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.Louisa May Alcott
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.Louisa May Alcott
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.Louisa May Alcott
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.Louisa May Alcott
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.Louisa May Alcott
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.Louisa May Alcott
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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.Louisa May Alcott
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.Louisa May Alcott
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Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and — and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.Louisa May Alcott
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But, like all happiness, it did not last long…Louisa May Alcott
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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…Louisa May Alcott
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!Louisa May Alcott
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It's lovely to see people so happy.Louisa May Alcott
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…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.Louisa May Alcott
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How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.Louisa May Alcott
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.Louisa May Alcott
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!Louisa May Alcott
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."" They're not empty now.Louisa May Alcott
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…wisely mingled poetry and prose.Louisa May Alcott