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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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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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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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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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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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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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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