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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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 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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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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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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