Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPeople want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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