Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI 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.
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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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 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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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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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 am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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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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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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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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