Best Quotes by Louisa May Alcott (Top 10)
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within.
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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
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Love is a beautifier.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
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More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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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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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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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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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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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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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Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
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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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. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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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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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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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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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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Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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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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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
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