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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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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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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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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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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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