The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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