Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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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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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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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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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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