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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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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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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 check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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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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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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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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