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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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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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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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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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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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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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