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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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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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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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