Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSimple, 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.
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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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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