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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
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Teaching
Strength
Sympathizing
Strengthen
Sympathy
Weakness
Atheism

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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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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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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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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