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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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