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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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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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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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