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Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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