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.
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More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Money 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.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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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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I like good strong words that mean something.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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