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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.

Louisa May Alcott

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Bad Death Live Logic Man Worth
I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Book Death Forget Hero Myself Splendid Wonderful Writing
Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Friendship Home Love Magic Relationship Story
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Charm Friendship Stay Vocabulary
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Evil Money Root
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Beginning Book People Thinking
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Affect Education Understand Woman Work World Yourself
Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Employement Time Understand Worth
I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Inspirational Learning Myself Storm Worry
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Easy Happiness Help Kindness Love Pain Sorrow Sympathy World
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Death Hard Herself Life Love Nature Passion
Many argue; not many converse.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Argument Talk
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Afraid Heaven Home Leaving Myself Run Sick
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Book Friendship Home Reading
I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Deep Heaven Key Myself See

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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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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