Better lose your life than your soul.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTKeep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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