Every house needs a grandmother in it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWell, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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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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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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