For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMen are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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