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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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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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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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