I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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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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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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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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