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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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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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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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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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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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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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