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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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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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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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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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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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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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