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.
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’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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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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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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