I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWe 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.
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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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