I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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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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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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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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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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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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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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