Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTOne 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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