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Love Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

80 Love quotes by Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott shows love as a source of strength and courage that can shape a person’s character. She writes that love drives away fear and brings gratitude, turning a home into a treasure of mutual help. She also hints that freedom can feel more reliable than romance for some.

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Love covers a multitude of sins…

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Men are often bad, but babies never are.

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Everybody has their days of misfortune.

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Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

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Be worthy love, and love will come.

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Money is a needful and precious thing

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Love is a great beautifier.

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Love is a beautifier.

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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

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“Love will make you show your heart someday...”

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“There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience.”

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Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

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“Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something…”

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“That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it.”

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Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

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“My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls…

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“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in…

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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…

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Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens…

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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

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“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.”

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“I can't love anyone else; and I'll never forget you, Jo, never! never!" with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words. -…

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“How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.”

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“Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, Four women, taught by weal and woe To…

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We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to…

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“There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so…

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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…

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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.…

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...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him…

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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so…

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“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike…

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“My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them…

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“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury…

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“No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I…

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“Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty…

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“[F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles…

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“Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching," Would be the most appropriate motto for this…

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“The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human…

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“Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by…

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“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”

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“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.”

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“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”

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Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill…

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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

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“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here…

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“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really…

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“ "I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within." ”

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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