Where the heart is the mind works best.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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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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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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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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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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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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Better lose your life than your soul.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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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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