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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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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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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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