Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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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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