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.
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But, like all happiness, it did not last long
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Dear me! How happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants
Feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Wisely mingled poetry and prose.
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In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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On some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
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Possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
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Nothing remained but loneliness and grief
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Don't try to make me grow up before my time
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I wish I had no heart, it aches so
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me
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Marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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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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Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret
In silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
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I like good strong words that mean something
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Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
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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.
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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 a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
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