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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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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