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Louisa May Alcott Inspirational Quotes (209)

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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
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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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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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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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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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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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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
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politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
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Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.
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