Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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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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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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