A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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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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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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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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