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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFar 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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