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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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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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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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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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