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- Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for…
- I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on…
- Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
- The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by…
- I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of…
- Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!
- He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
- My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would…
- Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the…
- It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
- When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if…
- Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
- Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first…
- She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a…
- Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is…
- The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling…
- …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
- I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of…
- Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some…
- You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make…
- If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an…
- You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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