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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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The less routine the more life.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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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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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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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 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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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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