A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFame 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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