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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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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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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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The less routine the more life.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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