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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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Bronson Alcott
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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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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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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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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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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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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