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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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Bronson Alcott
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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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 sin provokes its punishment.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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