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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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The less routine the more life.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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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 are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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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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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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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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