Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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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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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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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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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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