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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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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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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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