The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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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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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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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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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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