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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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