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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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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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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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