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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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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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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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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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Our ideals are our better selves.
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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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