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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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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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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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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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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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