Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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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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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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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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