Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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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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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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