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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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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 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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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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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 bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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The less routine the more life.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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