Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTBetter lose your life than your soul.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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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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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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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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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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