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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.
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Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called
love
, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.
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To me,
love
isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on
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The invigorating air did them both good, and much exercise worked wholesome changes in minds as well as bodies. They seemed to get clearer views of life and duty up there among the everlasting hills. The fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists. The warm spring sunshine brought out all sorts of aspiring ideas, tender hopes, and happy thoughts. The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, "Little children,
love
one another."
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to
love
Before she knew t'was Art.
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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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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition,
love
itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.
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Love
scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
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The sin is yours, but the shame and sorrow are mine, the past I cannot retrieve, the future is still unspoiled and I will not embitter it by any willful sin. Before I was innocently guilty, now I should be doubly guilty if I went back to the 'gay free life I
love
.' Atone for the wrong you have done me by ceasing to tempt and trouble me. I will not yield, though you hunt me to death.
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Because I have fallen in
love
with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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Not another day or hour would she remain, no help was possible, no atonement could retrieve the past, no
love
or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. To go instantly and forever was her only thought, and this gave her strength to rise and look about her.
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For no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender
love
.
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Because in spite of this longing, I know that I shall purchase happiness at high price if I return; that new falsehood may betray me, new tyranny oppress me, and above all I feel that with this man I must lose more and more the
love
of all good things, so strong is his influence, so unprincipled his nature. My only hope is that I may save his soul and yet not lose my own. Can I, dare I do this?
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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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"Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your
love
, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?"
"Go away and–"
He interrupted with a triumphant laugh, "Die as heroines always do, tender slaves as they are."
"No, live and forget you", was the unexpected reply.
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We're twins, and so we
love
each other more than other people…
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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 you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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To marry without
love
betrays as surely as to
love
without marriage...
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Love
is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Meg learned to
love
her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
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The child has talent,
loves
music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.
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We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as
love
and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with
love
until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!
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She'll go and fall in
love
, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
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I
love
my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people
love
and live for one another!
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During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by
love
alone
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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a
love
that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
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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.
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Love
is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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The
love
, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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I'm tired of praise; and
love
is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Louisa May Alcott
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Born:
November 29, 1832
Died:
March 6, 1888
(aged 55)
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