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Louisa May Alcott Inspirational Quotes (209)

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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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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
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Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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Liberty must not be abused.
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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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Souls and bodies should go on together.
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.
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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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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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Love is a beautifier.
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