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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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