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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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 finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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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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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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