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Many can argue - not many converse.
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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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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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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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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