I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
I could have been a great many things.
Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
. . children should draw [a husband & wife] nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and [your husband] had nothing to do but support them. . . . don't neglect husaband for child...
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…
…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how...
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. When
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That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it.
Samoljublje kvari i najveće genije.
Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.
Oh, Mother, help me, do help me!
Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain. Fifteen-...
It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.
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 immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy b...
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as litt...
Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands, cried the Professor, quite overcome.Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when h...
A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.