Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’t try to make me grow up before my time.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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 very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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