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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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