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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.
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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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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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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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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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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