It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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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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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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