Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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