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Heart Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
- They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on…
- For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for…
- 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 faithfully for them,…
- We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn…
- The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
- Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the…
- Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it,…
- A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,…
- Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
- Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be…
- 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…
- I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
- Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…
- …I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
- It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there…
- Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
- …books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to…
- You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make…
- To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly…
- I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.
- Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.
- For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious,…
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin