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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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