I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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