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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
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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