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

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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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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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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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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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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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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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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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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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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