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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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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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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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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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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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