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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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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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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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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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