Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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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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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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I 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.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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