When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

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Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

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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 care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

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