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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.
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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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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