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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
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Motivational
Influence
Real
Measured
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Charity

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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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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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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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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.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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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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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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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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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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