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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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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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