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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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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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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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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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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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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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