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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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