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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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