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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

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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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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