Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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 am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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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 a great beautifier.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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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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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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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 I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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