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.
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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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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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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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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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