Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTShe is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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 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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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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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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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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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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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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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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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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