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The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

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The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost… Quotes

“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 locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”

“Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.”

“Where the heart is the mind works best.”

“where I wholly love I wholly trust.”

“It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.”

“...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.”

“... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been”

“All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.”

“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.”

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

“Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.”

“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”

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

“Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.”

“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.”

“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 help given to both hearts and souls.”

“My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child”