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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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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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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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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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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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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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