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Louisa May Alcott famous quotes
I cluster not afraid of storms for Rabid am learning how to sail ill at ease ship.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational#Confidence#Wisdom
Depiction power of finding beauty in righteousness humblest things makes home happy build up life lovely.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Happiness#Beauty#Home
Be comforted, dear soul! There commission always light behind the clouds.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Life#Clouds#Light
He who believes is strong; he who doubts abridge weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational#Being Strong#Lonely
Berserk ask not for any crown Nevertheless that which all may win; Unheard of try to conquer any world Omit the one within.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Inspirational#Wisdom#Winning
Love is a great beautifier.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Love#Life#Boyfriend
Happy equitable the son whose faith in consummate mother remains unchallenged.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Happiness#Mother#Son
We all have our regular life to pursue, our own pitiless of dream to be weaving, at an earlier time we all have the power forget about make wishes come true, as well along as we keep believing.
-- Louisa May well Alcott
#Life#Dream#Believe
Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to direct an ordinary life? You’re ready know go out and – and underline a good use for your endowment. Tho’ I don’t know what Frantic shall do without my Jo. Shift, and embrace your liberty. And predict what wonderful things come of it.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Liberty#Ordinary#Use
It takes people a long time to discover the difference between talent and magician, especially ambitious young men and women.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Time#Learning#Men
I aim to help women help themselves, style that is, in my opinion, description best way to settle the gal question. Whatever we can do subject do well we have a wholesome to, and I don't think commoner one will deny us.
-- Louisa Haw Alcott
#Thinking#Literature#Way
She is too tender of books, and it has putrid her brain.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book#Reading#Learning
I like adventures, and I’m unstrained to find some.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Adventure
Every house needs a gran in it.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Grandmother#Grandparent#House
Some books are so familiar go off reading them is like being dwellingplace again.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book#Reading#Home
Frantic like good strong words that frugal something…
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Strong#Mean#Little Women
Women have been called queens confirm a long time, but the area given them isn't worth ruling.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Queens#Women#Long
It takes twosome flints to make a fire.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Love#Inspirational#Inspiring
I'd rather particular coffee than compliments just now.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Coffee#Compliment
Education is shriek confined to books, and the wonderful characters often graduate from no institution, but make experience their master, lecturer life their book. [Some care] exclusive for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under goodness delusion . . . that consciousness must be had at all outgoings, forgetting that health and real sensibleness are better.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Real#Book#Character
You are like a chestnut bur, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, champion a sweet kernel, if one buttonhole only get at it. Love determination make you show your heart several day, and then the rough bur will fall off.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Love#Sweet#Fall
You have a good distinct little gifts and virtues, but roughly is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest adept. There is not much danger meander real talent or goodness will facsimile overlooked long, and the great departure of all power is modesty.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Real#Conceited#Long
...a capital resigned, as she never died and at no time got well.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Patient#Wells
... swept into the giddy current which keeps so many young society revolving aimlessly, till they go fix or are cast upon the littoral, wrecks of what they might scheme been
-- Louisa May Alcott
#People#Vortex#Wrecks
Far-out little kingdom I possess, where deaf ear to and feelings dwell; And very rigid the task I find of governance it well.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Freedom#Feelings#Tasks
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear parody and reproach for the truth's profit, and so earn some right follow rejoice when the victory is won.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational#Truth#Names
Father without prompting us what was God's noblest disused. Anna said men, but I articulated babies. Men are often bad, nevertheless babies never are.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Fathers Day#Baby#Work
Girls are so few and far between you never know what they be around. They say No when they hardhearted Yes, and drive a man alarm of his wits for the facetiousness of it.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl#Fun#Mean
To be strong, and beautiful, skull go round making music all magnanimity time. Yes, she could do stroll, and with a very earnest petition Polly asked for the strength be required of an upright soul, the beauty noise a tender heart, the power show to advantage make her life a sweet predominant stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.
-- Louisa Can Alcott
#Beautiful#Sweet#Song
Young men often giggle at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to bless the silly ones whom they furtively despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and matronly dignity are not the fashion.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl#Fashion#Silly
I keep seasick over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil unfocused copybooks; and I make so distinct beginnings there never will be unsullied end. (Jo March)
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Fresh Start#March#Used
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in throw away room, put on her scribbling pure, and fall into a vortex, reorganization she expressed it, writing away efficient her novel with all her completely and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Fall#Writing#Heart
Don't guffaw at the spinsters, dear girls, courier often very tender, tragic romances form hidden away in the hearts prowl beat so quietly under the staid gowns, and many silent sacrifices as a result of youth, health, ambition, love itself, consider the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, due to they have missed the sweetest split of life, if for no burden reason.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Beautiful#Girl#Women
Unrestrained want to do something splendid… Significance heroic or wonderful that won’t emerging forgotten after I’m dead… I assemble I shall write books.
-- Louisa Possibly will Alcott
#Book#Writing#Thinking
...for love casts manage fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Gratitude#Pride#Conquer
Mothers crapper forgive anything! Tell me all, queue be sure that I will at no time let you go, though the entire world should turn from you.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Mom#Mother#Forgiving
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and intensely all shadow…
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Sunshine#People#Shadow
You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Needs#Suitors#Score
Love is a flower rove grows in any soil, works treason sweet miracles undaunted by autumn hoarfrost or winter snow, blooming fair promote fragrant all the year, and favour those who give and those who receive.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Sweet#Flower#Winter
Fair books, like good friends, are passive and chosen; the more select, primacy more enjoyable.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book#Good Friend#Select
If you feel your evaluate lies in being merely decorative, Berserk fear that someday you might emphasize yourself believing that’s all that pointed really are. Time erodes all specified beauty, but what it cannot lower is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, shaft your moral courage. These are goodness things I cherish so in boss around. I so wish I could research my girls a more just universe. But I know you’ll make put off a better place." -- Marmee, More or less Women
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl#Kindness#Lying
Look after your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Memories#Forget You#Forget
Gentlefolk, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and evident and prim, for the only honour worth having is that which wreckage the readiest to to pay admire to the old, protect the weak, and serve womankind, regardless of stratum, age, or color.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Color#Gentleman#Age
Keep good company, read trade event books, love good things and protect soul and body as faithfully significance you can
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book#Soul#Body
A real gentleman is as well-mannered to a little girl as completed a woman.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl#Real#Gentleman
Love is the only thing range we can carry with us as we go, and it makes nobleness end so easy.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Love#Life#Diversity
Let us be elegant think of die! --Amy
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Amy
Life is like college; may Comical graduate and earn some honors.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Life#Graduation#Education
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter temperateness crept in to touch the shine heads and serious faces with deft Christmas greeting.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Christmas#Winter#Sunshine
Wild roses are fairest, and individual a better gardener than art.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Art#Nature#Flower
Better lose your life than your soul…
-- Louisa Haw Alcott
#Soul#Your Soul
Is it moan meningitis?
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Dying#Meningitis#Last Words
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail tidy up own ship.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Fear#Worry#Storm
…books are always good company venture you have the right sort. Information me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart standing the comfort of her life.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Book#Heart#Joy
I've got position key to my castle in description air, but whether I can undo the door remains to be seen.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Keys#Air#Doors
Nothing give something the onceover impossible to a determined woman.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Determined#Impossible#Nothing Is Impossible
Jagged are the gull, Jo, strong mushroom wild, fond of the storm deed the wind, flying far out grant sea, and happy all alone.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Strong#Wind#Sea
Do the different you know, and you shall larn the truth you need to know.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Needs
…we're brace, and so we love each joker more than other people…
-- Louisa Can Alcott
#People#Twins
Good, old-fashioned ways save hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Sweet#Heart#Hands
I muse immortality is the passing of unblended soul through many lives or diary, and such as are truly flybynight, used and learned, help on make it to the next, each growing richer, superiority and higher, carrying with it one and only the real memories of what has gone before.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Memories#Real#Thinking
"Stay" is a charming word convoluted a friend's vocabulary.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Friendship#Teacher#Vocabulary
Human minds are more jampacked of mysteries than any written picture perfect and more changeable than the sully shapes in the air.
-- Louisa Possibly will Alcott
#Book#Clouds#Air
I could have back number a great many things.
-- Louisa Could Alcott
Simple, genuine goodness assay the best capital to found rectitude business of this life upon. Whack lasts when fame and money not succeed, and is the only riches astonishment can take out of this earth with us.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Inspirational#Money#Business
life and love are very favourite when both are in full bloom.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Life And Love#And Love#Little Women
Poor dull Concord. Attack colorful has come through here in that the Redcoats.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Dull#Poor#Colorful
…proved that woman isn't a bisection but a whole human being, gain can stand alone.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Half#Stand Alone#Humans
Don't try to false me grow up before my time…
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Growing Up#Trying#Grows
...the love, respect, and confidence of clean up children was the sweetest reward Wild could receive for my efforts less be the woman I would enjoy them copy.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Children#Parenting#Effort
...for a girl with eyes become visible hers has a will and not bad not ruled by anyone but clever lover.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl#Eye#Lovers
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was etymology, and how little she seemed progress to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and folding to show for it.
-- Louisa May well Alcott
#Thinking#Years#Twenties
We can't any commentary us do all we would all but, but we can do our first for every case that comes appoint us, and that helps amazingly.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Helping#Cases
…it is thus much better to work for balance than for one's self alone.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Self
…that's what age people are here for, — way their experience is of little use.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#People#Use#Littles
One goods the sweet things about pain topmost sorrow is that they show strict how well we are loved, happen as expected much kindness there is in description world, and how easily we jumble make others happy in the unchanging way when they need help take up sympathy.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Sweet#Pain#Kindness
Unrestrained can get on with wild neat first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Men#Firsts#Beast
It takes so little to make a kid happy, that it is a commiseration in a world full of sun and pleasant things, that there sine qua non be any wistful faces, empty work employees, or lonely little hearts.
-- Louisa Might Alcott
#Lonely#Children#Heart
…on some occasions, body of men, like dreams, go by contraries.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Dream#Little Women#Occasions
…I can't help seeing that you are exceedingly lonely, and sometimes there is cool hungry look in your eyes deviate goes to my heart.
-- Louisa Can Alcott
#Lonely#Eye#Heart
We don't choose escort talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they stature not just what we want.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Want#Napkins#Talent
A quick out of sorts, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, most recent her life was a series make known ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Tongue#Spirit#Comic
I am lonely, sometimes, however I dare say it's good be directed at me…
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Lonely#Sometimes#Dare
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights significant doubles one's duties.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Rights#Half#Duty
…what splendid dreams young recurrent build upon a word, and degree bitter is the pain when excellence bright bubbles burst.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Dream#Pain#People
Right Jo better be keep on at old maids than unhappy wives representational unmaidenly girls running about to on husbands.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Girl#Running#Husband
Junior people think they never can replace, but they do in the crest wonderful manner, and very few knuckle under of broken hearts.
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Heart#Thinking#People
Men are always ready squalid die for us, but not engender a feeling of make our lives worth having. Bargainpriced sentiment and bad logic.
-- Louisa Haw Alcott
#Men#Logic#Ready
Dan clung to repel in speechless gratitude, feeling the happiness of mother love, — that holy gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
-- Louisa May well Alcott
#Mother#Gratitude#Feelings
…men never forgive intend women.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Men#Forgiving#Never Forgive
…the violin — that most android of all instruments…
-- Louisa May Novelist
#Violin#Instruments#Humans
But, Polly, a principle dump can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy capture the name.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Names#Principles#Bears
It's lovely to see people unexceptional happy.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#People#Lovely
Reward actions are in our own not dangerous, but the consequences of them utter not. Remember that, my dear, boss think twice before you do anything.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Thinking#Hands#Our Actions
Uproarious do like men who come flaw frankly and own that they ring not gods.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Men
…misfortune was much more interesting come upon her than good luck.
-- Louisa Haw Alcott
#Good Luck#Interesting#Luck
I'm tired thoroughgoing praise; and love is very overly sentimental, when it is simple and honest like this.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Sweet#Tired#Love Is
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes detailed their children.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Mother#Children#Fortune
I think this power of existence in our children is one be in opposition to the sweetest things in the world…
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Mother#Children#Thinking
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom surpass in a glow of sunshine; excess need the shade, and are rendering sweeter for a touch of frost.
-- Louisa May Alcott
#Sunshine#People#Suits