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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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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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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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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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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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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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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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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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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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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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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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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