Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMen are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Many argue; not many converse.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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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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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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