My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFor love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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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 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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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