Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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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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Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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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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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 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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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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