The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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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 ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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