Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

. . . 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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… because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

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… for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

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… swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

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…a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

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…and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

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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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…and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

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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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…because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

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