Louisa May Alcott quotes - page 7

The sin is yours, but the shame and sorrow are mine, the past I cannot retrieve, the future is still unspoiled and I will not embitter it by any willful sin. Before I was innocently guilty, now I should be doubly guilty if I went back to the 'gay free life I love.' Atone for the wrong you have done me by ceasing to tempt and trouble me. I will not yield, though you hunt me to death. (Louisa May Alcott)
The invigorating air did them both good, and much exercise worked wholesome changes in minds as well as bodies. They seemed to get clearer views of life and duty up there among the everlasting hills. The fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists. The warm spring sunshine brought out all sorts of aspiring ideas, tender hopes, and happy thoughts. The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, "Little children, love one another." View quote
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Because in spite of this longing, I know that I shall purchase happiness at high price if I return; that new falsehood may betray me, new tyranny oppress me, and above all I feel that with this man I must lose more and more the love of all good things, so strong is his influence, so unprincipled his nature. My only hope is that I may save his soul and yet not lose my own. Can I, dare I do this? View quote
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It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another. View quote
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I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another! View quote
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. View quote
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. View quote
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. View quote
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. View quote
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. View quote
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. (Louisa May Alcott)
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. View quote
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us. View quote
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No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them. View quote
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Not another day or hour would she remain, no help was possible, no atonement could retrieve the past, no love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. To go instantly and forever was her only thought, and this gave her strength to rise and look about her. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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... freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul. View quote
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... for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover. (Louisa May Alcott)
But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name. View quote
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Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you. View quote
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now. View quote
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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. View quote
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