For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTA time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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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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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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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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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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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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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.
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