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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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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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