"…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck."
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Louisa May Alcott quotes (page 14 of 18)
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"Sympathy is a sweet thing."
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"To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on"
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"I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue."
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"Mothers can forgive anything!"
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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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"People cannot be molded like clay."
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"Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her."
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"Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!"
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"Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace."
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"The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter."
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"All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful."
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"I hate ordinary people!"
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"Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you."
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"All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter."
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"And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts."
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"My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you."
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"Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us."
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"...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well."
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"Be worthy love, and love will come."
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