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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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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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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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The less routine the more life.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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