Only don't go to the other extreme and delve like slaves. 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...
And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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...
V)irtue, like sunshine, works its own sweet miracles
Replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.
Their best; get them out into the air; and cure their ills by the magnetism of more active,
Take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Need of that. I am not a young lady, and it's only a step. Take care of yourself, won't you? Yes, but you will come again, I hope? If you promise to come and see us after you are well. I will. Good ni...
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For love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. I’ll try, Beth. And
Ella misma fuera muchacho. Si los Laurence hubieran sido lo que Jo llamaba tiesos y almidonados, no se hubiera entendido con ellos, porque la gente así siempre la coartaba e irritaba; pero viéndolos t...
And the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Belie...
And soon were surprised to see how well off they were. One discovered that money couldn’t keep shame and sorrow out of rich people’s houses, another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal hap...
You've had the scarlet fever, haven't you? Years ago, when Meg did. Why? Then I'll tell you. Oh, Jo, the baby's dead! What baby? Mrs. Hummel's. It died in my lap before she got home, cried Beth with a...
We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.
This is just the time, Meg, when young married people are apt to grow apart, and the very time when they ought to be most together, for the first tenderness soon wears off, unless care is taken to pre...
Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. Work is wholesome, and there is plenty f...
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
The right string had been touched, and even French exercises and piano practice became endurable, since accomplishments would be useful by and by; dress, manners, and habits were all interesting now,...