Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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.
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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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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