The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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