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Things Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for…
- Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
- When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I…
- I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
- Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt,…
- The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
- It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
- You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly…
- I could have been a great many things.
- Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
- Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and…
- Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
- 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…
- I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…
- One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in…
- Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her…
- 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 are.…
More Things Quotes
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle