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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.
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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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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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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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