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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations; I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations; I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Approximate author period: c. 1860 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Louisa May Alcott
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Approximate author period: c. 1860 AD · industrial
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 331; printed byline: Louisa May Alcott; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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