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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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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