Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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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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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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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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I 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.
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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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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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