Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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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.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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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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