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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWomen have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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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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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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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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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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