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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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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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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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The less routine the more life.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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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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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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