We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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 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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