Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWell, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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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 often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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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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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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