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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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 books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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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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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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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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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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