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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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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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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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The less routine the more life.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
Amos Bronson Alcott
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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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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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 more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
Amos Bronson Alcott
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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