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 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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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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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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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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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.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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