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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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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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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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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