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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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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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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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The less routine the more life.
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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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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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