It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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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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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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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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