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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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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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