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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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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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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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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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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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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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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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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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