A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMoney is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Many argue; not many converse.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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