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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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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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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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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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