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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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