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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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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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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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