Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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