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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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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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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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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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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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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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