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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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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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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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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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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