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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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The less routine the more life.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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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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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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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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