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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 loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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