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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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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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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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