I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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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 like good strong words that mean something.
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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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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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