Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHe was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Don’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.
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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