Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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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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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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