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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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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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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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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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