A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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