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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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