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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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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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