Where the heart is the mind works best.
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’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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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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