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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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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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The less routine the more life.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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