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Up Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe…
- 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…
- 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…
- My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to…
- Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part…
- Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my…
- If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any…
- 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…
- We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.
- I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being…
- 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,…
- When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if…
- I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
- Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
- 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…
- The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
- I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…
- Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
- I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able…
- She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for,…
- We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~
- The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy…
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe…
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