Fame 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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFor love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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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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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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 ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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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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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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