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.
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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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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 time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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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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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.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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